Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other,but in looking outward together in the same direction.--- Antoine de Saint-Exupery,French pilot and writer 生活已经告诉我们,爱不在于相互凝视,而在于眺望同一

发表于:2018-12-20 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 Daily English-2016.06

A pilot in England fell ill and became unconscious during a flight and the only one to land the plane was a passenger with instructions over the radio. The BBC's Andy Moore has more on the story. Surrounded by emergency vehicles, a light aircraft saf

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《英语流行话题阅读:语境识词3500》Unit 39 愿爱地久天长

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The pilot and the passenger got into the plane. It was a small plane. It had one engine. It was an old plane. The pilot started the engine. Are you okay? he asked the passenger. She said she was okay. They were flying to an island. The island was onl

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 原版英语小短文

He turned on the TV. He watched the 6 o'clock news. The news was about an airplane. The airplane had two engines. A big bird flew into each engine. The engines stopped working. The pilot landed the plane in a river. All the passengers climbed out ont

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AS IT IS 2014-03-10 US Military Pivots to the Pacific 美国军方在太平洋海域巡航 Hello, and welcome to As It Is from VOA Learning English! Im Jim Tedder in Washington. United States officials recently fined Asiana Airlines $500,000 for fail

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Pilot Program Teaches Sarawak Indigenous Children in Mother Tongue Sarawak is one of two Malaysian states on the island of Borneo. It is home to 28 ethnic groups, each with a distinct language, culture and lifestyle. Many groups are afraid of losing

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Iran Hero Pilot Shahbazi 'Forced To Retire' Over Sanctions Campaign Cellphone footage posted on the Internet shows Iran Air Flight 742 from Moscow approaching Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport on October 18th last year. The front landing g

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'Drones' Examines Complexities of Remote-control Warfare In his drama Drones, filmmaker Rick Rosenthal poses complex security, political and ethical questions about drone attacks in the ongoing war against global terrorism. Rosenthal builds a tense c

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Nearly 30 years ago, 257 people lost their lives in the worst plane crash that Air New Zealand has ever had. The plane hit Mt Erebus in Antarctica and everyone was killed. Today, the CEO of Air NZ, Rob Fife, showed a new sculpture outside the Air New

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Dutch police said the pilot was arrested in the cockpit. He is suspected of flying with a forged licence for more than a decade. The police said he had once had a commercial pilot licence but it had expired and it never qualified him for passenger fl

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I will back now, and what time? it it 7:41? (it's still 7:41). We'd knew that exciting new job, yes, it is. In the words of Britain's prince William, the prince is said to be longing to return to the cockpit. This time as an air ambulance pilot and A

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By David McAlary Washington 03 May 2007 Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr. is shown posed for a studio portrait in his space suit in this June 1962 file photo One of the first U.S. astronauts and only the fifth American in space, Walter Schirra, has die

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FAA Study Issues Recommendations to Correct Pilot Overreliance on Automation 美国联邦航空局建议飞行员不要过分依赖自动化 The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has released a comprehensive study that says airline pilots are rely

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今天我们要学的词是 insane. Insane is spelled i-n-s-a-n-e, insane. Insane 可以用来指疯狂的,精神不正常的。比如,A Texas judge found the JetBlue pilot insane and not guilty of interfering with a flight. 德克萨斯州的一位

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By Paul Sisco Washington 12 October 2007 American test pilot Chuck Yeager flew a plane through the sound barrier on October 14th, 1947. VOA's Paul Sisco takes a look back at the famous feat and the man who first flew at Mach 1. Some say only the Wrig

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA常速英语(十月)

By Joe Bavier in Abidjan Franz Wild in Meagui 18 May 2006 Officials in a half dozen towns in war-divided Ivory Coast have begun registering residents who, until now, have had no documents or legal sta

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Authorities in Jordan have reportedly released a female suicide bomber in a prisoner swap with the Islamic State militant group. But it's still unclear who the IS is going to free in return, a Japanese hostage or a captured Jordanian pilot. Syria's p

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UFO Attack 飞碟来袭 June.Nineteen sixty-nine, not one airliner but two, plus the pilot of an Air National Guard fighter plane, report being harass ed by a team of UFOs. One man estimates the glowing ships have come within a few hundred feet. The

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力文摘 English Digest

Topics: American Cities (Territories): American Samoa; how to become a pilot in the U.S.; objective versus subjective, to be flanked by, power versus empowerment; to delegate versus to defer Words: territory southern hemisphere indigenous to occupy r

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