De Lesseps failed spectacularly. It was a complete disaster.

他经历了惨痛的失败，这是一场灭顶之灾。

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Viola a De Lesseps: Yes, you were deceived, for I did not know how much I loved you.

是的，你被欺骗了，因为我都不曾知道我是那么的爱你。

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

VOA: special.2010.08.12

In the eighteen eighties, Ferdinand de Lesseps -- builder of the Suez Canal -- formed a French company to build a waterway across Panama.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

But De Lesseps' company still owned the land on which the canal would be built.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

In 1859, work began on the construction of the Suez Canal, under the direction of Ferdinand de Lesseps.

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De Lesseps's insistence that the canal be built without locks had led engineers to try to cut directly through the rock to sea level.

ECONOMIST: The Panama Canal

De Lesseps was ruined, his son imprisoned for fraud.

ECONOMIST: The Panama Canal