First of all, because food travels such long distances, we need more planes, trucks and ships to move the food.

首先，因为食物运输的距离太长，我们需要更多的飞机、卡车和船只来运送食物。

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The bones of great metal ships, unlike the wooden vessels of old, survive the ravages of the sea long enough to become home and 6 haven for Marine life of all kinds.

与老式的木制船不同，大型金属船只的骨架历经海洋的磨砺，经过漫长的年代，最终变成各种海洋生物的家园和避风港。

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With a canal across Central America, ships could sail directly from ocean to ocean. They would not have to make the long, costly voyage around the southern end of South America.

有了中美洲的运河，船只就能够从这个大洋直接到另一个大洋，再也不必费时费力费钱地绕过南美洲的最南端。

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Cruise ships dock on one side. On the other,long-haul cargo ships unload their containers.

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At this time the Dutch are sending herrings, these long flat boats, herring ships are going all the way to Newfoundland in the seventeenth century,and Iceland, freezing off the coast of Iceland.

于此同时,荷兰人也还运输鲱鱼,这些运送鲱鱼的长板船,在十七世纪一路开往纽芬兰和冰岛等地区,并不停穿梭于被冰壳覆盖的海岸线上

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But it turns out there are plenty of ships in this price range, mostly mega-yachts, what many in the industry refers to as ships over 130 feet long (the longest stretch over 500 feet).

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Indeed, the demand for ships and munitions, created by the long war against France, boosted British industry.

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Bellies full, we drove back down PR-184 following the falling sun toward the Caribbean Sea, cruising along the coast to reach Ponce, a colonial port town where long ago pirates raided Spanish ships coming into the harbour.

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