The Channel Tunnel

基本解释

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，你就看见了海堤，还有一片小小的沙滩，现在这里是从英吉利海峡隧道弃土中开发出的一片自然保护区。
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.
该公司发言人理查德·霍利甘称，由于严寒天气和铁路轨道问题，11日早晨，3辆欧洲之星公司的列车被困在英吉利海峡隧道中靠近英国的那一侧。
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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.
但是历史也告诫（我们），从伦敦到英吉利海底隧道的这条英国唯一的高铁线，从未到达甚至接近过当初所预计的乘客人数。

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,该工程的创意在十九世纪初由法国工程师提出,在十九世纪七十年代由英法两国开始建设,但因英国公众担心国防安全而终止。