The aqueducts of the roman empire are marvels of engineering and soaringly elegant design .

罗马帝国的导水管是工程奇迹，设计优雅高贵。

A great deal of water is often lost in association with irrigation through evaporation from open storage areas ( e.g. reservoirs ) and open transport canals and aqueducts .

灌溉中有大量的水，往往是在露天储存区（如水库）及开放交通的运河和沟渠中通过蒸发流失的。

Those " trillions of dollars " are represented by the dams , canals , aqueducts , and pipelines that have been used throughout the developed world to safeguard drinking water supplies .

代表那“数万亿美元”的是发达国家在保卫饮用水供应过程中使用的水坝、运河、沟渠和管道。

Today , water has drifted so far from civic celebration that many people visit the roman aqueducts without any sense at all that they moved water , or how .

今天，水已经从文明庆典中剥离，以至于很多参观罗马导水管的人都从不曾想过这管道曾流动过水，或，它是怎么流的。

In the 1960s his father , pat , served as governor and built ambitious aqueducts and highways .

在20世纪60年代，他父亲曾担任加州州长，要求建立高架渠与高速公路。