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Because there's not a lot of room between the canals, that's why they're so steep when you walk up these things.
由于运河之间的陆地空间狭小,这就解释了为何你上楼时会觉得很陡峭
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But it is called, it's short for the "Triangle below the Canal".
但它被叫做，它是“运河下的三角区”的简称。
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They build these three large canals and this expands the area of the city by four times.
他们凿建了三条巨大的运河,使得城市面积扩大了四倍
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The longest ditch in the world, as it was called, 300-and-some-odd miles out to Buffalo.
当时它号称是世界最长的运河,长达三百多英里,又纽约州向布法罗城
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I didn't know whether it was that or Canal Street in New Orleans.
恍惚中仿佛来到了新奥尔良的运河大街。
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It becomes this economic dynamo because of that, and thus traders are to be found everywhere.
由于运河的开凿,使得这里成为欧洲经济的发动机,各国的商贩在这随处可见
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You have 500 miles of canals dug just in the middle decades of the seventeenth century.
仅在十七世纪中叶,这里就开凿了,五百英里的人工运河
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It's the time in which but it's the time in which long distance commerce began to take hold, because of transportation revolutions: canals, roads, railroads in particular.
它是一个时期,这是一个远距离商业开始产生影响的时代,主要原因便是运输方式的革新,运河,公路,特别是铁路
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You've got these warehouses along the canals and here's where the bankers-- the Dutch had the most, along with the English, had sophisticated banking system in the world.
你已经见过了这些运河旁的仓库了,这些银行家们,大部分来自于荷兰,同时也来自英国,他们拥有世界上最复杂的的银行系统
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Now, here, these are houses that are built along the canals.
再看这个,这个是造在运河旁的住宅楼
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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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The canals were used to transport goods.
这些运河被用来运送货物
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It was the romantic--and by the way, about 3,300 miles of such canals would be built by the middle of the 1850s, all for the purpose of commerce, and to move people.
顺便说下,这是多么浪漫的事,在五十年代中期,为了商业运输和劳力流通,而建造的这类运河总长达3300英里
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But what you have are these canals.
当时他们开凿了这些运河
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