1. It looked as if there would be an exciting race across the Channel.
    看来会有一场激烈的飞越英吉利海峡的竞争。

2. In 1858, a French engineer, Aime Thome de Gamond, arrived in England with a plan for a twenty-one-mile tunnel under the English Channel.
    1858年，一位名叫埃梅.托梅.德.干蒙的法国工程师带着建造一条长21英里、穿越英吉利海陕的隧道计划到了英国。

3. If not for the channel, England or France surely would have swallowed the other.
    如果不是有海峡这一屏障，英格兰或法兰西早就吞并了对方。