Our engineers told the Chinese the Burma Road would cost millions and take 10+ years. They did it in a year for peanuts.

我们的工程师告诉缅甸那路需要大量金钱和10多年才能建成，结果中国人用了1年和很小的花费就建成了那路。

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They'd prefer to think that the road they hacked across India's steep Patkai Range and down through the jungles of Burma to China during World War II is gone.

他们宁愿相信二战期间他们所开凿的、始于印度陡峭的帕特开山、经由缅甸的热带雨林、最后通往中国的那条道路已经不存在了。

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And Tokyo also demanded that Britain close the Burma Road to the Chinese city then known as Chungking.

VOA: special.2011.05.26

The Burma Road was a major route by which the United States was supplying China with munitions as part of the Lend-Lease Act.

VOA: special.2011.05.26

In 1945, a convoy of U.S. trucks from India crossed the Burmese-Chinese border, opening the Burma Road.

CNN: Wednesday,

From the Burma Road to the Arctic convoys, the killing fields of Kursk and the London Blitz, their voices are heard.

ECONOMIST: The second world war

The new pipelines will follow the route of the old British-built Burma Road, which still carries timber, gold, gemstones and other Burmese raw materials north to China and brings in cheap manufactures.

ECONOMIST: China and Myanmar