Interestingly, they had not started it; it was begun by a French man named Ferdinand de Lesseps in 1880, but he could not finish it because he ran out of funding.
有趣的是,他们并没有开始这个项目;它是由一位名叫费迪南德·德·雷赛布 (Ferdinand de Lesseps) 的法国人于 1880 年开始的,但由于资金用完而无法完成。