build a railway

The Dalian tunnel looks small compared to the latest idea to build an international railway that would link China to the United States by burrowing under the Bering Strait and creating a tunnel between Russia and Alaska.

最近，有人提出修建一条跨国铁路，通过在俄罗斯和阿拉斯加之间的白令海峡海底挖一条隧道，将中国和美国连接起来。相比之下，大连这条隧道的规模就很小了。

A Chinese scheme to build an east-west railway across South America, cutting across parts of the Amazon rain forest, has moved a step closer after Peru agreed to study the proposal.

中国计划穿过亚马逊雨林，建设一条从东到西穿越南美的铁路。在秘鲁同意对提案进行研究后，该计划又前进了一步。

China uses World Bank loan to build a railway communication network

中国利用世界银行贷款建设铁路通讯网络

That loss for the Beijing Mass Transit Railway Operation Corp., Ltd is more than what it cost to build the Olympic Bird Nest stadium, now a major landmark in Beijing, which cost 3.13 billion yuan to build.

北京市地铁运营有限公司（Beijing Mass Transit Railway Operation Corp.Ltd）的这个亏损数字超过了奥运会主场馆鸟巢的建设成本。鸟巢已成为北京的一大标志性建筑，造价人民币31.3亿元。

For his PhD research on the subject at the LSE, Donaldson had to build a massive database based on paper records of the railway building programme, gathered in painstaking detail by colonial officials.

他目前在伦敦政治经济学院（LSE）攻读博士学位，为进行相关课题的研究，他必须根据当年殖民地官员费心整理的、有关铁路建设计划的详细书面纪录，构建一个庞大的数据库。

It takes a lot of labor to build a railway.

修筑一条铁路要花费许多劳动力.