The Channel Tunnel

基本解釋

Once through, you're into what was the sea wall and a small beach, but is now a nature reserve, created out of the spoil of the Channel tunnel.
出了隘口，你就看見了海堤，還有一片小小的沙灘，現(xiàn)在這裡是從英吉利海峽隧道棄土中開發(fā)出的一片自然保護區(qū)。
Spokesman Richard Holligan says 3 trains were held on the English side of the Channel Tunnel early Thursday due to cold weather and a track problem.
該公司發(fā)言人理查德·霍利甘稱，由於嚴寒天氣和鉄路軌道問題，11日早晨，3輛歐洲之星公司的列車被睏在英吉利海峽隧道中靠近英國的那一側。
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But history counsels caution, too: Britain’s only existing high-speed line, from London to the Channel Tunnel, has never come close to achieving its projected passenger numbers.
但是歷史也告誡（我們），從倫敦到英吉利海底隧道的這條英國唯一的高鉄線，從未到達甚至接近過儅初所預計的乘客人數(shù)。

On Friday, the weather caused five trains to fail inside the Channel Tunnel.
After six Eurostar trains broke down in or near the tunnel that runs under the English Channel, the system has been suspended while engineers troubleshoot the electrical problems thought to have been brought on by condensation.

The French and British have bickered over refugees escaping into the Channel tunnel.
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The Channel tunnel has raised hopes of closer Anglo-French relations in the most Francophile of English novelists, Julian Barnes.
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英法海底隧道
The Channel Tunnel is the world’s second largest cross-harbor tunnel. The idea of this project was proposed at the beginning of the nineteenth century by French engineers,and the project began to be constructed in the 1870s by Britain and France,but it was terminated because of the British concern about national security.
英法海底隧道是世界第二大海底隧道,該工程的創(chuàng)意在十九世紀初由法國工程師提出,在十九世紀七十年代由英法兩國開始建設,但因英國公衆(zhòng)擔心國防安全而終止。