Canal

(noun.) long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation.

(noun.) (astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusion.

(verb.) provide (a city) with a canal.

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• He did this, destroying the canal as far as Goochland, and the railroad to a point as near Richmond as he could get. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Well-seasoned timber is an expensive article, sir; and all the iron handles come, by canal, from Birmingham. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• The boat had a single paddle wheel in the middle near the stern, and was intended only for canal use, in the place of horses. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• They had seen the Roosevelt influence adding to the resources of life--irrigation, and waterways, conservation, the Panama Canal, the country life movement. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Lord Dundas at the beginning of the century had an iron boat built for the Forth and Clyde Canal, which was propelled by steam. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The canal extends nearly due south to Suez on the Red Sea, a distance of about 100 miles, through barren wastes of sand and an occasional lake. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The same thing may be said of a canal, an aqueduct, or a great pipe for bringing water to supply a great city. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The great canals, especially the Suez, developed a new system of canal engineering. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It was only after all this preliminary sanitation was accomplished that the real work of digging the canal could go forward with any hope of success. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Of course he fell in the canal and was nearly drowned; few boys in Milan worth their salt omitted that performance. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• This was imported from England, and arrived in New York in May, 1829, and was tried in that year on a section of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company’s railroad. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• In May, 1879, an international congress was convened, under the auspices of Ferdinand de Lesseps, to consider the question of the best location and plan of the canal. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The railroads and canal should be destroyed beyond possibility of repairs for weeks. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Large granaries were established, and proved so successful that local capital was tempted into the project of making a tow-path canal from Lockwood Landing all the way to Milan itself. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• They appear as anchored in the new concrete docks at Colon, preparatory to their passage through the canal, after having made the longest sea voyage then on record for submarines. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Their headquarters lay in the southwest corner of this district, near the crossing of two of the so-called Martian canals. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• The great canals, especially the Suez, developed a new system of canal engineering. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Twice we crossed the famous Martian waterways, or canals, so-called by our earthly astronomers. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• To overcome this difficulty skew bridges were designed, that crossed roads and canals in slanting directions. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Great gangs of men were employed in excavating canals, in making railway cuttings and embankments, and the like. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In Bengal, the Ganges, and several other great rivers, form a great number of navigable canals, in the same manner as the Nile does in Egypt. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He made the canals and organized the irrigation (_e. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The roads all go along the river mouths to the sea and to cross the country you must go along the paths beside the canals. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• He had recently built several canals on this property, and was at the head of a number of companies which were planning to intersect England with waterways. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• It took into account the collieries, mines, canals, marshes, fens, and the varieties of soil in relation to the substrata. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The three canals and the turnpike road were often so crowded that traffic was held up for days and even weeks. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Down below there were mosquito marshes and canals. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• The making of roads, railroads, canals and tunnels has called forth thousands of ingenious mechanisms for their accomplishment. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Beginning life as a stone mason, he rose by his own industry to be a master among architects and a prince among builders of iron bridges, aqueducts, canals, tunnels, harbours and docks. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Discovery of Satellites of Mars by Professor Asaph Hall, and its so-called Canals by Schiaparelli. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

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