CNN 2009-12-30
时间:2018-12-20 作者:英语课 分类:cnn2009年(十二)月
Take all of the stress of flying this time of year, and imagine you are doing it in a wheel chair for the first time ever. Our Reynolds Wolf looks at a program that's helping 1 passengers travel after they've suffered major injuries.
OK so you want me turned around?
Constance Kay is getting on a plane for the first time since her paralyzing injury.
Are you nervous for the(at the) first trip?
Oh, yes. Absolutely. I never thought I could do it at all. So, oh, yes, beyond a doubt.
She is taking part in a program between Delta 2 Airlines and the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, a rehabilitation 3 hospital for people with spinal 4 cord and brain injuries.
"We want them to be very comfortable when they fly with us. We want our employees to be very comfortable in interacting with passengers with disabilities, and we want to make sure that the passengers with disabilities know it is OK to be an advocate for their own needs. "
You really want to be familiar with the bullet points of the air care as the access site before you travel(s).
It all began with the class at the Sheperd center where recently disable patients learned how to navigate 5 in an airport.
For travel specifically, we are looking at what are the accessibility concerns that you are going to have at the airport. What are you rights in terms of when you travel.
Make sure that you check in properly.
It is a daunting 6 process to endure in a wheelchair. Checking in, going through security, getting to the gate, but what scares these guys the most is being transferred from their wheelchairs to a thinner less bulky version that fits down a plane aisle 7, and then to their seat on the aircraft.
- The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
- By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
- He has been to the delta of the Nile.他曾去过尼罗河三角洲。
- The Nile divides at its mouth and forms a delta.尼罗河在河口分岔,形成了一个三角洲。
- He's booked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.他自己联系了一家康复诊所。
- No one can really make me rehabilitation of injuries.已经没有人可以真正令我的伤康复了。
- After three days in Japan,the spinal column becomes extraordinarily flexible.在日本三天,就已经使脊椎骨变得富有弹性了。
- Your spinal column is made up of 24 movable vertebrae.你的脊柱由24个活动的脊椎骨构成。
- He was the first man to navigate the Atlantic by air.他是第一个飞越大西洋的人。
- Such boats can navigate on the Nile.这种船可以在尼罗河上航行。