But the Saudi landscape is already dotted with failed or abandoned megaprojects.

但沙特的土地上已经布满了失败或被遗弃的大型项目。

Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam sits alongside Nigeria's Eko Atlantic and Egypt's USD $58BN new capital as one of Africa's most impressive megaprojects.

埃塞俄比亚的文艺复兴大坝建设在尼日利亚的大西洋新城和埃及耗资 580 亿建成的新首都之间，是非洲最震撼的超大工程之一。

Which is exactly what this new multinational megaproject plans to do.

这正是这个新的跨国大型项目计划要做的。

Even the Germans get megaprojects wrong.

即使是德国人也搞错了大型项目。

Still, the fallout from the Amazon deal may be having an impact on how the city approaches megaprojects in the future.

不过，亚马逊交易留下的阴影可能会对该市未来处理大型项目的方式产生影响。

Flyvbjerg is an economic geographer who years ago became fascinated with infrastructure megaprojects.

Flyvbjerg 是一位经济地理学家，多年前就对大型基础设施项目着迷。

Quite frankly, most of these megaprojects are being started by people that never end them.

坦率地说，大多数大型项目都是由那些永无休止的人开始的。

With the new line set to open in 2027, plans are already underway for an extension to link Nagoya with Osaka — a USD $30.5BN megaproject in itself.

预计新干线将于 2027 年通车，而名古屋与大阪之间的连接扩展计划也已经在筹备中，这也是一项价值 305 亿美元的项目。

As part of this Victorian megaproject, the Fleet river, by then little more than an open drain, was encased in cement and lost to public view.

舰队河作为这项维多利亚时代巨型工程的一部分，当时还只是一个露天排水沟，它被用水泥包裹起来，从公众视野中消失了。

And this is all exactly what Turkey is planning on doing with their Istanbul Canal megaproject which just began construction a few months ago back in March of 2021.

这正是土耳其计划对伊斯坦布尔运河大型项目所做的一切规划，该项目几个月前刚于 2021 年 3 月开始建设。

So between strategic misrepresentation and the optimism bias, what are you supposed to do if you're on the commissioning end of a megaproject?

那么，在战略误传和乐观偏见之间，如果您处于大型项目的调试阶段，您应该做什么？

It's somewhat fitting then that the country's next construction megaproject will be  built on the ruins of its last.

该国的下一个大型建设项目将建在其上一个项目的废墟上，这在某种程度上是合适的。

These data led Flyvbjerg to establish what he calls " the iron law of megaprojects." Over budget, over time, under benefits, over and over again.

这些数据促使 Flyvbjerg 建立了他所说的“大型项目的铁律”。超出预算，随着时间的推移，福利不足，一遍又一遍。

So Denmark at one stage decided to start doing megaprojects and the first megaproject they did was a connection between east and west Denmark and it went terribly wrong.

因此，丹麦在某个阶段决定开始实施大型项目，他们做的第一个大型项目是连接丹麦东部和西部，但结果出了严重的问题。

Set to cost AUD $23 BN and create an  entirely new export industry in the region, this megaproject is just the beginning  for South East Asia's energy revolution.

耗资 230 亿澳元并在该地区创建一个全新的出口产业，这个大型项目只是东南亚能源革命的开始。

This USD $8.2BN megaproject will include  houses, hotels, offices, a riviera, and Athen's new tallest building… all in a bid to rewrite a  more sustainable version of the capital's story.

这个耗资 82 亿美元的大型项目将包括住宅、酒店、办公室、海滨和雅典新的最高建筑… … 所有这些都是为了重写一个更具可持续性的首都故事。

So, if you have a lot of megaprojects going wrong, your whole national accounting and funding system, you know, where you plan the budget for next year, becomes very unreliable.

因此，如果你有很多大型项目出了问题，你知道，你的整个国家会计和融资系统，你计划明年的预算，就会变得非常不可靠。

On July 13th a big trading firm, Trafigura, said it had unwound its 10% stake in Vostok Oil, a Rosneft megaproject in the tundra that Mr Sechin believes could sustain Russia for decades.

7 月 13 日， 一家大型贸易公司 Trafigura 表示，它已经出售了其在 Vostok Oil 的 10% 股份， 这是 Rosneft 在冻土带的一个大型项目， Sechin 先生认为该项目可以维持俄罗斯数十年的生存。

The country has faced terrible internal struggles in Civil Wars all throughout its troubled modern history, but the construction of the GERD megaproject became a unifying rallying call for the country's 120 million diverse people to finish.

在其多灾多难的现代历史中，该国一直面临着内战等可怕的内部斗争，但修建埃塞俄比亚复兴大坝大型工程却成为了该国 1.2 亿不同民族完成团结的号角。

Megaprojects like HS2 are the subject of an entertaining new book called " How Big Things Get Done" by Bent Flyvbjerg, an academic at Oxford University who specialises in such things, and Dan Gardner, a journalist.

像 HS2 这样的大型项目是一本有趣的新书的主题，书名为“大事如何完成”，作者是牛津大学专门研究此类项目的学者 Bent Flyvbjerg 和记者 Dan Gardner。