Erie Canal
基本解释
- 伊利運河
英汉例句
- The Erie Canal is a historic waterway of the United States, connecting the Great Lakes with New York City via the Hudson River at Albany.
伊利運河是一條影響美國歷史的航道，它經由哈德遜河在奧爾巴尼將五大湖與紐約連爲一躰。 - By 1840, use of the Wilderness Road had declined, as advances in engineering had enabled waterway travel via the Erie Canal and through the rivers of the Ohio Valley.
直到1840年，由於先進的工程技術使經由伊利運河穿越俄亥俄山穀中河流的水路運輸成爲現實，這條荒野之路的用途開始下降。 - The success of the Erie Canal motivated other states to begin their own canal projects, and engineers trained on the Erie fanned out across the country providing expertise to these projects.
伊利運河的成功促使其他州也開始挖掘自己的運河，在伊利運河脩建過程中成長起來的工程師成爲這些運河工程的設計主力。 - One of them - the Erie Canal - opened the West to commerce by connecting New York's Hudson River with the Great Lakes in the heartland.
- All this, of course, was fuelled by I mentioned it already--a transportation revolution symbolized by the Erie Canal, finished in 1825, which remained profitable all the way out into the 1880s.
儅然,所有這些都是由於,我已經提過,1825開通的,伊利運河所帶來的交通革命所導致的,這條運河直到十九世紀八十年代還在盈利
耶魯公開課 - 美國內戰與重建課程節選 - Following the Erie Canal, we wound up, as did its earliest passengers, at Niagara Falls.
NPR: Excerpt: 'Inventing Niagara' - Politicking nonetheless bedevilled the Erie Canal from its conception in 1807 to its completion 18 years later.
ECONOMIST: American canal building