时间:2019-01-13 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2010年(四)月


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This aerial photo shows a plume 1 of ash rising from the volcano in southern Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier 2, 19 Apr, 2010




Flight cancellations from the Iceland volcano eruption 3 are creating costs and inconveniences all the way to Asia.


The International Air Transport Association says global carriers are losing an estimated $200 million a day in revenue as a result of airplane groundings related to the Iceland volcano.   Albert Tjoeng, a Singapore-based spokesman for the association, says that is just part of the problem.


"There are people stranded 4 in Europe who cannot fly back home to Asia," said Tjoeng.  "There are travelers who are stranded in Asia who cannot fly back home.  At the same time, goods and services cannot be delivered."


Travelers waiting around here are missing out on income because they cannot return to work, like this French physical therapist hoping to get back to Paris.


TRAVELLER: "My office is closed.  I have to tell my patients I cannot be in France.  It is quite stress[ful] about making money, because it is my work."


On the other end of the stalled air route are passengers like Nemo Kim, a news anchor for an international broadcaster in Seoul, who cannot get back from London.  She has been getting text messages for days from her carrier, Korean Air, that flights are canceled.  She is hoping to board a plane next Sunday.


"If there are no flights, even until then, I will probably have to send my luggage by mail, and then try and get a train ticket going to Madrid… and then maybe try and get back to Korea via New York or via Bangkok or Hong Kong.  Either way, it is going to be an expensive trip," said Kim.


The flight cancellations are expected to have additional repercussions 5 for smaller Southeast Asia countries, where travel and tourism is a major share of the economy.

 



n.羽毛;v.整理羽毛,骚首弄姿,用羽毛装饰
  • Her hat was adorned with a plume.她帽子上饰着羽毛。
  • He does not plume himself on these achievements.他并不因这些成就而自夸。
n.冰川,冰河
  • The glacier calved a large iceberg.冰河崩解而形成一个大冰山。
  • The upper surface of glacier is riven by crevasses.冰川的上表面已裂成冰隙。
n.火山爆发;(战争等)爆发;(疾病等)发作
  • The temple was destroyed in the violent eruption of 1470 BC.庙宇在公元前1470年猛烈的火山爆发中摧毁了。
  • The eruption of a volcano is spontaneous.火山的爆发是自发的。
a.搁浅的,进退两难的
  • He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里, 身无分文,一筹莫展。
  • I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市,既没有钱,又没有朋友。
n.后果,反响( repercussion的名词复数 );余波
  • The collapse of the company will have repercussions for the whole industry. 这家公司的垮台将会给整个行业造成间接的负面影响。
  • Human acts have repercussions far beyond the frontiers of the human world. 人类行为所产生的影响远远超出人类世界的范围。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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aechmea
aftertouches
aging school
alternating series
application swap file
arm guards
armature leakage
arthrectasia
automatic white level (awl)
bent tail lathe dog
bespouts
beta control
biles
bilineurin
blue danube
boiler feed pump
bombings
bungies
bzz
cannulisations
carriage dog
ceratophyre (keratophre)
Chrysanthemum arcticum
cloth fast yellow
colo(u)r balance
compositure
cultural context
deseasonalization
disk type motor
down digging
dulid
early stage evaluation of offshore oil-gas field
ermine moths
f4m
failure rate sampling plan
fluorescent high-pressure mercury lamp
fork eye
Fragaria moupinensis
gowl
hat-making
hazard to
heathenization
hunkpapas
hydrological designs
I'm not surprised
image buffering
in bad circumstances
indanthrene
index forest
inferior cerebellar vein
influent waste
interior-design
intertuberous diameter
Kefar Sava
liquid bomb
make requisition for
mean utilization
mild hybrid electric vehicle
military geomorphology
mossy stone
multiple access rights terminal
nanomenter
neighboring country
nitzschia plana
odontophore
order Ericales
package testing
parapedicular
pay-as-you-go
phenyl ethyl alcohol
phyllogenetic
physiological biomass
pigmentosa
plexus meningeus
potboiler
proportioning element
proprietary agent
regular pulse excitation
reticular fibers
reviewing and approving the arrest
RGL
rhytidiadelphus triquetrus
rollster
rowf
RS-449
semi-protected motor
shell nozzle
shrunk on-pipe joint
Sibu
single-helical gear
skill-set
small amplitude shear oscillation
srimuang
steam-generating circuit
study habits
sublimation drying
superdislocation
the press gallery
to pick you up
Ust'-Dolyssy
xenodocheum
yellow-breasted buntings