435 美国遭受恐怖袭击后加拿大关闭商业航班 Canada Shuts Down Commercial Air Traffic After US Terror Attacks Craig McCollough Vancouver 12 Sep 2001 01:46 UTC Canada, like the United Sta

发表于:2018-11-29 / 阅读(106) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2001-国际风云(5)

Arent airports strange places? Theres so much happening in them. People coming, people going; people crying with sadness because theyre going away, people crying with joy because theyve arrived. Big airports are almost like small towns. It seems like

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Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS Cars drive to Murtala Mohammed in Lagos, Nigeria 26 Dec. 2009 The Nigerian government has enhanced security checks at its airports after a young Nigerian man tried to blow up a U.S. airliner. Nigerian Information Minister Dora

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Heathrow Airport was forced to cancel scores of flights and other aircraft flying into the UK had to be diverted to other airports after a crash landing The busiest international runway on earth, today, it was at a standstill, planes static, and fro

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Britain finally has a new prime minister. Conservative leader David Cameron has taken over the job after Gordon Brown resigned a very short time ago. Mr. Brown stepped down after power-sharing talks with the Liberal Democrats collapsed. The Conservat

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Its hard to believe that no one had computers a few years ago. I wonder how people lived. There must have been a lot of paperwork. I cant imagine writing everything by hand. I also wonder how everything worked without computers. We need computers tod

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Business 商业 Airport privatisation 机场私有化 Runways required 跑道待增 Private investors can make airports bigger, but not big enough 私人投资者能使机场扩大,但尚不够大 Down from heaven and into arrival hell 自天堂而下

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1. A fire at suburban Chicago air traffic control center brought flights to halt for several hours Friday at two of the nation's busiest airports, triggering the delay and cancellation across the country. 2. President Barack Obama told representative

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Ask one hundred people whether they love to travel and most of them will probably say yes. Discovering a new place can be fun and exciting. But getting to that place is often a lot less enjoyable. Flying is a popular travel method. But airports can b

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Dogs are known for a strong sense of smell. Their noses can be trained to identify different odors. Dogs are often used in search and rescue operations and to sniff for things like drugs and explosives. Some dogs have even been trained to sniff for c

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Its a familiar sight in many of the UKs airports long queues of people waiting to go through security to catch their flights. What if there was a simple and quick way to avoid all the hassle of having to take off all metal objects, coats, belts and s

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今天我们要学的词组是cripple。 Cripple的意思是瘸子,或是因为受伤而腿瘸了, He was crippled falling off a horse. 他从马背上摔下了,腿瘸了。Cripple也有削弱,使无法正常运作的意思,比如内战削弱

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今天我们要学的词是bottleneck。 Bottleneck, 瓶颈,堵塞。The project will eliminate the bottleneck by widening the road, 这个项目要通过加宽道路来解决交通堵塞的问题。 感恩节是美国人坐飞机旅行的高峰期。

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今天我们要学的词是intrusive。Intrusive, 有侵犯的意思。美国机场加强安检,包括全身扫描和拍摸式搜身,引起很多乘客不满。不过,美国运输安全管理局负责人说, New rules requiring 'intrusive' pa

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Its a familiar sight in many of the UKs airports long queues of people waiting to go through security to catch their flights. What if there was a simple and quick way to avoid all the hassle of having to take off all metal objects, coats, belts and s

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(100) / 评论(0) 分类 英语杂谈

本期内容: Holidaymakers have been warned their getaways could be ruined if they drink too much at airports or on flights. The travel industry unveiled its One Too Many campaign on social media and displays at 10 UK airports, including Gatwick a

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本期内容: British Airways suffered a global IT failure, resulting in the wholesale stoppage of flights from London airports on Saturday. Delays and cancellations continued throughout the weekend. BA blamed a power-supply problem for the snafu,

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 夏说英语新闻晨读

今天我们要学的词组是cripple。 Cripple的意思是瘸子,或是因为受伤而腿瘸了, He was crippled falling off a horse. 他从马背上摔下了,腿瘸了。Cripple也有削弱,使无法正常运作的意思,比如内战削弱

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Travel-loving Chinese are making most of the three-day holiday. Major airports in China are seeing more flights, comparing to same period last year. Saturday was the first day of the holiday, more than 240,000 people departed from Beijing airport. Th

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中国拟建造高效交通运输体系 For CRI, I'm Wang Mengzhen China's top economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission, has announced that the country's infrastructure operation network has been basically completed. Meanwhile

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