panama canal

基本解释

The Panama Canal joins two oceans.
巴拿马运河连通两大洋。
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Through the Panama Canal it is linked with Atlantic ports of Americas and Europe.
通过巴拿马运河，它与美国和欧洲的大西洋港口相连。
You might hope that this columnist would travel by leisurely boat through the Panama Canal but he, too, wings it, when work calls, over the great circles close to the melting poles.
你或许希望这篇文章的专栏作家能悠闲地坐着轮船穿越巴拿马运河。不过，当工作召唤之时，他却生出双翼，绕很一大圈来到了冰雪融化的极点。

For years, shipbuilders limited the size of many ships so that they could fit through the Panama Canal.
A study was made to decide which would be a better place for the canal -- Panama or Nicaragua.
Engineers said it would cost less to complete the canal De Lesseps had started twenty years earlier in Panama.

Sunday morning we entered the Pacific side of the Panama Canal at the Miraflores locks.
FORBES: Cruising Through The Panama Canal