夏说英语新闻晨读 第236期:英航系统故障
时间：2019-02-13 作者：英语课 分类：夏说英语新闻晨读
英语课
本期内容：
British Airways 1 suffered a global IT failure, resulting in the wholesale 2 stoppage of flights from London airports on Saturday. Delays and cancellations continued throughout the weekend. BA blamed a power-supply problem for the snafu, which left thousands of passengers stranded 3 in airports or stuck on the tarmac for hours.
Wholesale：大规模的
Stoppage：停工
Snafu：混乱局面
Stranded：滞留
Tarmac：停机坪
航空公司
- The giant jets that increasingly dominate the world's airways. 越来越称雄于世界航线的巨型喷气机。
- At one point the company bought from Nippon Airways a 727 jet. 有一次公司从日本航空公司买了一架727型喷气机。
n.批发；adv.以批发方式；vt.批发，成批出售
- The retail dealer buys at wholesale and sells at retail.零售商批发购进货物，以零售价卖出。
- Such shoes usually wholesale for much less.这种鞋批发出售通常要便宜得多。
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