Boats needing to be lifted up enter the canal basin at the level of the Forth & Clyde Canal and then enter the lower gondola of the Wheel.

需要被吊起的船只在福斯克莱德运河的高度进入到运河港池，然后进入水轮中较低的贡多拉里。

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Cai Wanfa, local canal administration, said, "the main problem is the water level."

当地运河行政机构的蔡万发说：“主要问题是水位问题。”

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A major challenge faced, was to link the Forth and Clyde Canal, which lay 35m (115ft) below the level of the Union Canal.

但是这项工程在施工过程中遇到了一个重大的难题：福斯·克莱德运河水面低于联盟运河35米(115英尺)。

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Fresh from constructing a sea-level canal through the flat Egyptian sand, de Lesseps was determined, without having set foot in Panama and after only the vaguest of topographical studies, that his project through the mountainous central American isthmus would also be a sea-level canal, requiring no locks to cope with changes in altitude.

ECONOMIST: The Panama Canal

The key was not to try to dig a Suez-type of canal, a great sea-level trench from ocean to ocean, but to create a lock-and-lake canal, where the ships are lifted up by a series of locks to a man-made lake, and then they sail across that lake, and then they are set back down on the other side by another series of locks.

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As you sit on your top deck, nibbling aged Gouda and brown Dutch bread and sipping cold gin, you can watch canal life at eye level.

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