Two hydraulic steel gates are raised, so as to seal the gondola off from the water in the canal basin.

两个液压钢制闸门抬高，以将贡多拉与运河盆地里的水隔离开。

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Round a bend in the canal came plodding a solitary horse, stooping forward as if in anxious thought.

在水渠的一个拐弯处，一匹孤独的马拖着沉重的步子走过来，它向前弯着腰，仿佛心事很重。

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Currently ships can ride only twelve meters deep in the canal.

目前，运河中船只的航行深度只有12米。

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Engineers said it would cost less to complete the canal De Lesseps had started twenty years earlier in Panama.

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All this, of course, was fuelled by I mentioned it already--a transportation revolution symbolized by the Erie Canal, finished in 1825, which remained profitable all the way out into the 1880s.

当然,所有这些都是由于,我已经提过,1825开通的,伊利运河所带来的交通革命所导致的,这条运河直到十九世纪八十年代还在盈利

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They would build a canal to carry them past the turn in the river, past the Confederate cannon.

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Mrs Khan recalled her horror at discovering her son had fallen in the canal.

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Run-off water from the fire-fighting operation reduced oxygen levels in the canal, causing the fish to die.

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John Laverick, from the trust, said it was "one of the most significant moments" in the canal's history.

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