Yes, last night, in a matter of minutes, we cleared that insuperable isthmus.

对，就是昨夜，几分钟内，我们便走过了不能走过的地峡。

But isn't that isthmus only composed of quicksand?

那么，地峡只是由松动的沙土形成的吗？

They itched to visit a famous isthmus and planned a wonderful itinerary.

他们渴望游览处著名的地峡并计划了很棒的路线。

Today,nearly 14,000 vessels travel through the isthmus annually— each in under 12 hours.

如今，每年有将近 14,000 艘船只穿越地峡——每艘船只的航行时间都在 12 小时以内。

To truly connect these two bodies of water shipping interests needed a canal— a continuous maritime passage through the isthmus.

为了真正连接水域， 航运要运— —穿过地峡的连续海上通道。

To move goods between Asia and the Mediterranean basin, traders had to traverse the narrow isthmus separating the Red Sea and the Nile, journeying in camel-bound caravans through the unforgiving desert.

在亚洲和地中海盆地之间运输货物，商人不得不穿越分隔红海和尼罗的狭窄的地峡，骑着骆驼的大篷车上穿过无情的沙漠。

The latter desert separated advanced human societies of Mesoamerica from those of North America, while the isthmus separated advanced societies of Mesoamerica from those of the Andes and Amazonia.

后者将中美洲的先进人类社会与北美的人类社会分开，而地峡将中美洲的先进社会与安第斯山脉和亚马逊地区的人类社会分开。

As the isthmus was then a part of Colombia, President Roosevelt proceeded to negotiate with the government at Bogota a treaty authorizing the United States to cut a canal through its territory.

由于地峡当时是哥伦比亚的部分，罗斯福总统着手与波哥大政府谈判项约， 授权美国在其领土上开辟运。

The idea of a water route across the isthmus, long a dream of navigators, had become a living issue after the historic voyage of the battleship Oregon around South America during the Spanish War.

横跨地峡的水道想法成为了航海家长期以来的梦想，现在已经成为现实的问题。

The very narrow isthmus of Panama presented a unique opportunity for mankind to build a shortcut by carving a Canal across just a bit more than 50 kilometers worth of land that separated the two oceans here.

巴拿马非常狭窄的地峡为人类提供了独特的机会，通过在仅 50 多公里的土地上凿出运来修建捷径，运将里的大洋分隔开。

However, they are fragmented by geography and by ecology: the Isthmus of Panama, only 40 miles wide, virtually transects the Americas geographically, as do the isthmus's Darien rain forests and the northern Mexican desert ecologically.

然而，它们因地理和生态而支离破碎：巴拿马地峡只有 40 英里宽，在地理上几乎横断了美洲，地峡的达里恩雨林和墨西哥北部沙漠在生态上也是如此。

On February 6 the Nautilus cruised in sight of the city of Aden, perched on a promontory connected to the continent by a narrow isthmus, a sort of inaccessible Gibraltar whose fortifications the English rebuilt after capturing it in 1839.

2月6日，诺第留斯号浮出水面，远远看见亚丁港，港筑在海呷上，很窄的地峡把它跟大陆连接起来。