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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abnormal flood level
adjust ring
aetate
ahh
aluminium-steel
AMAO
ame-duck congress
american depositary receipts
Amici Bertrand lens
anger/frustration
anoed efficiency
auerwaldia microthyrioides p.henn.
backup data set
banking control valve
bimli hemp
Cape Vogel Airport
central mother cell
charging station
colour-schemes
confirm
corral
cranial reflex
cranium platybasicum
crank effect
crystal binding
decibels above one volt
deuteron alpha reaction
digital telephone
disciplina
dock charges
economic success
emission per unit length
epilepsia gravior
euphorbia esulas
ferrite coil
fivepenny nail
Folin theory
geometricize
Gobulus
Goldblatt's hypertension
Guerrilandia
hanenburg
hysterical vomiting
inert matter
inferior border
interior dune
inverness
jimthompsonite
Kartvelians
labour economics
ladies' thimbles
land reclamation machinery
lautenschlager
lead tank
lethrinus lentjan
libystes nitidus
lindbo
marenga
market authority
maximal subgroup
membranous dusting tube
Metanemone ranunculoides
micrococcus uberis
misrelated
Modal fibre
model evaluation
negundo chastetree leaf
NPYR
Ober Engadin
offer an excuse
ordinary trustee
overseasoned
parental retention
physical cleaning
plentifulest
polypeptidotoxique
procedural action
production of commodities
profit and loss adjustment
quadruple piont
RCFC (reactor containment fan cooler)
right-and-left-hand chart
Sachsen, Land
self aeration mechanical agitation flotation machine
sir peter paul rubenss
Small Computer Systems Interface
somatopathic
soot wart
sophismata
SPPD
Strait of Georgia
swoop up
tchetverts
tempest-tost
third market
touchpad
true anomalies
trumpler
up the stream
wood drilling machine
yangpans
zymogenic, zymogenous