VOA标准英语2014--航空专家说导弹能显示发射信息
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2014年(七月)
Airline Expert: Missile will Show Signature on Debris 1 航空专家说导弹能显示发射信息
The debris field from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is spread over a 21-kilometer radius 2 in eastern Ukraine. It is expected to take investigators 4 months to sort through the airplane pieces to learn about the missile that brought down the jetliner and who fired it.
Soon, a multi-national force set up by the United Nations will guard the ground where the Malaysian airliner 5 crashed after being hit by a missile over Ukraine.
The debris field was unsecured for days after the crash. One investigator 3 says he saw local workers cutting away the wreckage 6 with a chainsaw.
Experts worry that some pieces have been repositioned or removed, leaving the scene compromised.
Jim Wildey retired 7 from the National Transportation Safety Board after 37 years. His job was to determine if explosives caused a plane crash.
His team investigated the deadly crash of TWA Flight 800, which went down shortly after takeoff from New York. Authorities initially 8 suspected it was caused by a bomb, but the NTSB ruled that out.
Wildey says missiles will leave a signature burn on the wreckage.
“If a missile explodes nearby, you’d expect a shotgun blast of holes with concurrent 9 damage associated with over pressure of the missile exploding. If it’s further away, it might not be so obvious," said Wildey.
Wildey says this investigation 10 is unlike any other because of the circumstances - a passenger plane shot down over a conflict zone in eastern Ukraine.
Many are asking why some - like Malaysia Airlines - continued flying in the airspace, while others thought it was too dangerous.
Kenneth Quinn is with the Flight Safety Foundation. He says in the past, governments avoided setting up no-fly zones over civil conflicts. Local fighters typically did not have access to surface-to-air missiles that could reach cruising altitudes of passenger planes. U.S. intelligence analysts 11 say a Russian SA-11 "Buk" missile downed the Malaysian-bound aircraft.
“This is a new threat, a new kind of capability 12 that heretofore had only been possessed 13 by some of the large powers - principally Russia and the United States and the Mideastern powers and China. So to have the ethnic 14 strife 15, the civil war and high-range missile anti-aircraft batteries is quite ominous 16 and something we would want to prevent," said Quinn.
As investigators search for clues, airline experts want a global summit to address this new dynamic in local conflicts.
- After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
- Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上，导致蛀牙。
- He has visited every shop within a radius of two miles.周围两英里以内的店铺他都去过。
- We are measuring the radius of the circle.我们正在测量圆的半径。
- He was a special investigator for the FBI.他是联邦调查局的特别调查员。
- The investigator was able to deduce the crime and find the criminal.调查者能够推出犯罪过程并锁定罪犯。
- This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
- The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The pilot landed the airliner safely.驾驶员使客机安全着陆。
- The passengers were shepherded across the tarmac to the airliner.旅客们被引导走过跑道去上飞机。
- They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
- New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。
- The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
- Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
- The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
- Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。
- You can't attend two concurrent events!你不能同时参加两项活动！
- The twins had concurrent birthday. 双胞胎生日在同一天。
- In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
- He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
- City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
- I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。
- She has the capability to become a very fine actress.她有潜力成为杰出演员。
- Organizing a whole department is beyond his capability.组织整个部门是他能力以外的事。
- He flew out of the room like a man possessed.他像着了魔似地猛然冲出房门。
- He behaved like someone possessed.他行为举止像是魔怔了。
- This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏，这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
- The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。
- We do not intend to be drawn into the internal strife.我们不想卷入内乱之中。
- Money is a major cause of strife in many marriages.金钱是造成很多婚姻不和的一个主要原因。