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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aceric
Anitapolis
architectural features
balance tolerance
Bautu
bertillon systems
cable for communication
carrier sweep-out process
cascom
cationic dyes
checking datum mark
cladocarpous
climbing bittersweets
cling to one's own view
cold-sensitive neuron
collective leadership
controlling magentic field
court-martialed
crenium
critical parachute open speed
Cuanza
Daltonist
dementalize
devexion
dichloro acetaldehyde
distribution board
diving cabin
dorr's thickener
draught head
Drummondville
dumeril
electric refrigertor
electroplatable
endomycopsis fibuliger
enfamishment
fairlee
family crocodylidaes
floodwall
foregangers
fuck niggas
fuel reproduction factor
fuel suction hood packing
full-time modulation
furnace pipe
gamma camera interface
gastroenterostomia retrocolica
gold-germanium eutectic temperature
got old
gypseous
harbor malice against
hollewa
homophobics
hotel detectives
impulse item
intra-group
io-to (iwo jima)
Iris tenuifolia
Kyǒngsǒng-gun
labor reported
Lipton,Sir Thomas Johnstone
Litvinov
Lumbala N'guimbo
make sure work with something
Metalomonosovite
Metildigoxine
monetary obligation
multilobes
nyctea scandiaca
optimum aperture
Orobanche cernua
paper tape speed
paraglider aerodynamics
picture phone
prairie-steppe brown soil
pressure measuring instrument
principal contract
punctual delivery
residual current operated device
revarnished
sabeline
sanctuary city
scratchbands
sea-going bellhop
semi-infinite medium
Shuleykin Seamount
steady state of marine chemistry
Stephana
strata control
stultifyings
submilliwatt circuit
surface layer nitriding
synclinoria
television tower
threading lathe
toadstools
tourus
vacublast
vanishing point method
wall ratio
wars of the austrian succession
Wikisource
world egg