1·Then, in 1899, a telegraph cable connecting Britain to Cape Town came ashore amid the jagged rocks of Comfortless Cove.
然后，在1899年，一条连接不列颠岛与开普敦的电报电缆在礁石嶙峋的坎福特湾（Comfortless Cove）上岸。
2·The first transatlantic telegraph cable is completed, and messages begin to flow between the shores of America and Europe.
当铺设一条从欧洲到美洲的海底电报光缆的时候，出于商业冬季人们第一次提出“海底是什么东西？”
3·Had to be answered with any commercial consequence was when the laying of a telegraph cable from Europe to America was proposed.
这个问题第一次必须加以回答是在考虑铺设从欧洲到美国的电报电缆的时候，而且具有商业意义。
4·The first time that the question 'what is at the bottom of the oceans' had to be answered with any commercial consequence was when the laying of telegraph cable from Europe to America was proposed.
第一次从商业价值的角度来回答海底有什么这个问题，是在有人建议铺设一条从欧洲到美洲的电报电缆的时候。
5·The first time that the question "What is at the bottom of the oceans?" had to be answered with any commercial consequence was when the laying of a telegraph cable from Europe to America was proposed.
“海底有什么？”这个问题第一次必须加以回答是在考虑铺设从欧洲到美国的电报电缆的时候，而且具有商业意义。
6·1866 - the Atlantic Cable is successfully completed, allowing transatlantic telegraph communication for the first time.
1866年的今天，跨大西洋海底电缆成功完工，从此令跨大西洋间的电报通讯首次成为可能。