时间:2019-02-12 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2009年(六月)


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The global air industry and Asia's carriers, in particular, will see industry losses increase sharply this year because of the global recession this according to according to the latest report from the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Although the immediate 1 outlook is bleak 2, industry analysts 3 are optimistic for the future, especially for growth in the China and India markets.


The bleak financial assessment 4 for the global air travel industry was presented during the annual general meeting of the International Air Transport Association, in Malaysia.


In its latest report, the IATA forecast forecast the industry's losses to climb to $9-billion - double its earlier forecasts - with Asia Pacific accounting 5 for a third of the losses.


European carriers are forecast for losses of almost $2 billion, with North American carriers expected to show a loss of $1 billion, much lower than the more than $5-billion loss in 2008.


The downturn in future earnings 6 came as IATA revised the global industry losses for 2008 to more than $10 billion.
 
IATA Chief Executive Giovanni Bisignani delivers his speech at the 65th IATA Annual General Meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 08 Jun 2009


IATA Director General Giovanni Bisignani is pessimistic and says the airline industry is "in survival mode", calling on governments and industry to make major changes.


Bisignani is calling on the industry to "resize and reshape", as companies slashed 7 corporate 8 travel budgets and consumers are reluctant to spend in the face of the global recession.


John Koldowski, a communications executive with the Pacific Asia Travel Association, says, although there has been some sign of improvement, the first quarter of 2009 was "particularly tough" for the travel industry.


Koldowski says the short-term outlook is likely to be a tough one for the region's travel industry.


"I think in reality is its going to be a long, long time if we, in fact, we ever get back to the sorts of growth rates that we have experienced over the last half decade or more," he said. "That is quite some way off. It is going to be slow tough incremental 9 growth probably for another two to three quarters."


IATA says Asia-Pacific carriers are expected to have losses of more than $3 billion, with the downturn in the India and China markets following the slide in export-driven demand. The region's carriers lost almost $4 billion in 2008.


Peter Harbison, chairman of the Sydney-based Center for Asia Pacific Aviation says the economic crisis has translated into 30 percent declines in business and first class traffic - hitting hard the bottom line of the air carriers.


"If you think in terms of a 25-percent reduction in premium 10 traffic, you are probably looking at, in terms of total airline operating revenue, as much as 30 percent of gross," he said.


But Harbison says it is unlikely there will be any significant consolidation 11 in the Asia-Pacific region, as it "lumbers 12 along with government support".


IATA says air carriers in both India and China had reported heavy financial losses, because of the global economic downturn and contraction 13 of global export markets.



adj.立即的;直接的,最接近的;紧靠的
  • His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
  • We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
adj.(天气)阴冷的;凄凉的;暗淡的
  • They showed me into a bleak waiting room.他们引我来到一间阴冷的会客室。
  • The company's prospects look pretty bleak.这家公司的前景异常暗淡。
分析家,化验员( analyst的名词复数 )
  • 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。
n.评价;评估;对财产的估价,被估定的金额
  • This is a very perceptive assessment of the situation.这是一个对该情况的极富洞察力的评价。
  • What is your assessment of the situation?你对时局的看法如何?
n.会计,会计学,借贷对照表
  • A job fell vacant in the accounting department.财会部出现了一个空缺。
  • There's an accounting error in this entry.这笔账目里有差错。
n.工资收人;利润,利益,所得
  • That old man lives on the earnings of his daughter.那个老人靠他女儿的收入维持生活。
  • Last year there was a 20% decrease in his earnings.去年他的收入减少了20%。
v.挥砍( slash的过去式和过去分词 );鞭打;割破;削减
  • Someone had slashed the tyres on my car. 有人把我的汽车轮胎割破了。
  • He slashed the bark off the tree with his knife. 他用刀把树皮从树上砍下。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.共同的,全体的;公司的,企业的
  • This is our corporate responsibility.这是我们共同的责任。
  • His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail.他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。
adj.增加的
  • For logic devices, the incremental current gain is very important. 对于逻辑器件来说,提高电流增益是非常重要的。 来自辞典例句
  • By using an incremental approach, the problems involving material or geometric nonlinearity have been solved. 借应用一种增量方法,已经解决了包括材料的或几何的非线性问题。 来自辞典例句
n.加付款;赠品;adj.高级的;售价高的
  • You have to pay a premium for express delivery.寄快递你得付额外费用。
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n.合并,巩固
  • The denser population necessitates closer consolidation both for internal and external action. 住得日益稠密的居民,对内和对外都不得不更紧密地团结起来。 来自英汉非文学 - 家庭、私有制和国家的起源
  • The state ensures the consolidation and growth of the state economy. 国家保障国营经济的巩固和发展。 来自汉英非文学 - 中国宪法
砍伐(lumber的第三人称单数形式)
  • Carefully she covers them and lumbers away. 它把这些卵仔细地盖好,然后慢吞吞地走开了。
  • Research shows that the intrinsic frequency of hole defect lumbers is little lower than standard lumbers. 研究表明,含有孔洞试件的固有频率与标准试件相比略低一些,但差别不大。
n.缩略词,缩写式,害病
  • The contraction of this muscle raises the lower arm.肌肉的收缩使前臂抬起。
  • The forces of expansion are balanced by forces of contraction.扩张力和收缩力相互平衡。
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achlorophyllaceous
air gate
alternative mechanism
amodiaquine
arch breaker
arch wire
aready
aural direction finder
batrachiate
before-and-after design
Benito Mussolini
Big Switch Networks
bivariate uniform distribution
blue skullcaps
bolalipid
brandisher
bransfield
building unit
calcaratus
cellulose number (value)
centric constriction
cercospora jatrophicola
chauncy
collar and cuff
contrastive study
control reach
convergent pencil
depanelization
diplazium lobatum
distribution system insulated from earth
elastic pin coupling
enteric bacteria
extrachromosomal inheritance
fire dogs
flashing current
flehmened
Fractilinea
French pox
genus Calymmatobacterium
Granatfullung
heteroploid (winkler 1916)aneuploidy(tackholm 1922)
hoosgow
hydrocyclist
imars
insulation testing
integrated circuit tester
internal convection
International Bulk Chemicals code
keep sight of
kite-balloon
Knightsbridge
l-benzoylglucuronic acid
laugh gas
liangshanin
madaket
microdrosophila (oxystyloptera) tecifrons
mineral mutrient
monzal
morran
mudvayne
Nash County
naval defense forces
negative lap
niess
non disclosure
normal withdrawal sequence
official short term credit
oily waste water treatment
Out of the Game
overfortification
payment deficit
plateau-iris glaucoma
polyarteritides
portable pacemaker
pummeled
quinidia
Raffingora
rassies
RFID chip
sampling system of motor vehicle emissions
Sarmatism
sea color index
sea dace
sempstressy
similarity
single engine single-shaft system
sports deck
step current
supercategory
sybra flavostriata
truncated pyramid
tubing hanger alignment slot
twack
U. S. Army Special Forces
unbewailing
under-glaze decoration
unhurriedness
uraniums
verification of assumptions
welans -anys
white army
white interface