After 15 years of construction work, the 9.5-meter (31-foot) wide drilling machine will bore through the remaining 1.5 meters of rock to join two ends of the tunnel some 2,000 meters under a mountain.

经过15年的施工，9.5米宽的钻孔机将会钻穿最后剩下的1.5米的岩层，联通了位于山体下2000米的隧道两端。

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Gas drilling projects, such as Jonah Field, impede pronghorn migration, and new homes restrict corridors to no more than a few hundred yards wide in places.

乔纳气田这样的天然气钻探项目妨碍了叉角羚的迁徙，一些地方的新住房把叉角羚走廊缩小到不足几百米宽。

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Exploiting shale also requires drilling lots of wells-something that might prove harder in densely populated Europe than in America's wide-open Spaces.

勘探页岩同样需要在很多地方钻井，但是相比美洲大片的开阔地域，欧洲大陆人口密集，所以在欧洲钻井勘探可不是一件容易的事。

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