If you stand back far enough from the canal Banks, it appears as though the giant ships are gliding through dry desert sands in the middle of nowhere.

如果你站在运河岸边远处眺望，就好像巨轮在茫茫荒野干旱沙海上滑行。

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The canal has burst its Banks.

大渠决了口子。

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Down near the station was a canal, or perhaps it was a river, hidden away under a yellow sky, with little shacks pasted slap up against the rising edge of the Banks.

距火车站不远有一条人工运河，也许它是一条天然河也不得而知，它躲在黄色的天幕下，突起的两岸边斜搭着一些小棚屋。

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The Trent and Mersey Canal breached its banks at Dutton after heavy rain in September, leaving a hole the size of 12 double decker buses in the side.

BBC: Work starts to repair breached Trent and Mersey Canal

It is another eight-and-a-half-mile paddle east to the town of Newark, where you can overnight at the Vintage Gardens Bed and Breakfast if you do not want to camp along the banks of the canal.

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Inside was a large framed photograph of a naked woman, sitting on the banks of the Estaimpuis canal.

NEWYORKER: L��?tranger