英语练习-MH370

英语练习-MH370
Extra Reading(I)
MH370----a missing plane
北京时间3月8日凌晨，马来西亚航空公司吉隆坡至北京MH370航班客机与地面失去联络，机上载有239人，包括154名中国乘客。

目前中国、马来西亚、越南等国至少34架飞机和40艘舰船在可疑海域展开搜救，但仍未找到客机下落。

马来西亚航空MH370航班失联迄今已超过50小时，各方传来的碎片化信息难以解释客机失联“谜团”，各国正持续加大救援力度。

截至目前，还没有确切证据显示飞机失事。

所以目前各大媒体都在报道中使用了“失联飞机”（missing plane/jet），而并未将其定义为空难（air disaster或plane crash）。

我们依然在祈祷奇迹的发生，等待MH370的回家。

一架巨大的飞机为何会突然失踪不见？据美联社报道，造成飞机失踪的原因通常包括以下几点：
机身或其配备的劳斯莱斯瑞达800引擎遭受严重的结构破坏
A catastrophic structural failure of the airframe or its Rolls-Royce Trent 800 engines.
Most aircraft are made of aluminum which is susceptible to corrosion over time, especially in areas of high humidity. But given the plane’s long history and impressive safety record, experts suggest this is unlikely.
恶劣天气
Bad weather.
Planes are designed to fly through most severe storms. However, in June 2009, an Air France flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed during a bad storm over the Atlantic Ocean. Ice built up on the Airbus A330’s airspeed indicators, giving false readings. That, and bad decisions by the pilots, led the plane into a stall causing it to plummet into the sea. In the case of
Saturday’s Malaysia Airlines flight, all indications show that there were clear skies.
飞行员迷航
Pilot disorientation.
Todd Curtis, a former safety engineer said that the pilots could have taken the plane off autopilot and somehow went off course and didn’t realize it until it was too late. The plane could have flown for another five or six hours from its point of last contact, putting it up to 3,000 miles away. This is unlikely given that the plane probably would have been picked up by radar somewhere. But it’s too early to eliminate it as a possibility.
两部引擎均出故障
Failure of both engines.
In Jan uary 2008, a British Airways 777 crashed about 1,000 feet short of the runway at London’s Heathrow Airport. As the plane was coming in to land, the engines lost thrust because of ice buildup in the fuel system. There were no fatalities.Loss of both engines is possible in this case, but the plane could glide for up to 20 minutes, giving pilots plenty of time to make an emergency
call.
遭遇炸弹袭击
A bomb.
Several planes have been brought down including Pan Am Flight 103 between London and New York in December 1988. There was also an Air India flight in June 1985 between Montreal and London and a plane in September 1989 flown by French airline Union des Tran sports Aériens which blew up over the Sahara.
被劫机
Hijacking.
A traditional hijacking seems unlikely given that a plane’s captors typically land at an airport and have some type of demand. But a 9/11-like hijacking is possible, with terrorists forcing the plane into the ocean.
飞行员自杀
Pilot suicide.
There were two large jet crashes in the late 1990s — a SilkAir flight and an EgyptAir flight—that are believed to have been caused by pilots deliberately crashing the planes.
被某国军队意外击落
Accidental shoot-down by some country’s military.
In July 1988, the United States Navy missile cruiser USS Vincennes accidently shot down an Iran Air flight, killing all 290 passengers and crew. In September 1983, a Korean Air Lines flight was shot down by a Russian fighter jet.
一旦发生空难，有没有一些可行的自救方法呢？为保护乘客安全，应对突发事件，飞机上都配备了安全带（safety belt）、救生衣（life vest）、氧气面罩（oxygen mask）、紧急逃生出口（emergency exits）等安全设施。

作为乘客，我们也应时刻保持警惕，尤其是起飞（takeoff）后3分钟与降落（landing）前8分钟这两个时段。

研究显示，七成空难发生在这两个时间段。

而空难之后，经常被提及的一个词就是“黑匣子（black box/data recorder）”。

“黑匣子”的颜色其实是橙色，是用来记录飞机飞行过程中一些重要数据的工具，调查人员可以通过其数据分析出失事原因。

发生空难时，应怎样逃生自救？
澳大利亚教授盖里尔研究了1983年到2000年间105次坠机事件2000多名幸存者的受访记录，总结出6条自救方法。

这些方法在紧急情况下或许能助一臂之力。

①别与家人分开
If you are traveling in a family group, you should insist that the airline does not separate you throughout the aircraft. Why? It's only natural that if you're involved in that sort of situation that you're going to want to reunite the group before you evacuate.If you do that it's going to cause havoc.
②学会解安全带
How do you undo your seat belt in your car? You press a button. In a plane, you lift a latch. If you can't undo your seat belt then, you can't evacuate and your chances of survival plummet.
③距离逃生口近
Sit within seven rows of an exit and count exactly how many rows you are from the nearest two exits. Count so that you can find an exit in the dark. And why two exits? Because the nearest exit to you might not be "viable."
④背朝飞行方向
We would all be safer if airline seats faced backward. But the difficulty with this is that the majority of the traveling public doesn't like traveling with their back facing the direction of travel.
⑤带上防烟口罩
"Smoke contains toxic gases, narcotic gases. It contains irritant gases. If you inhale enough of them you will die," explains Galea. He carries a smoke hood but warns that if you're going to follow his example you must learn how to use it. Otherwise you'll waste time trying to put it on —time that could be used for making an exit.
⑥听乘务员讲解
Listen to the preflight briefing by the flight attendants and read the safety card. Don't do the crossword or flip through the in flight magazine. Be prepared. And if you're about to crash, do adopt the brace position -- head down, ankles behind knees. The
brace position is one of the most important things a passenger should take on board when they fly, it's designed to reduce your chances of being knocked unconscious during a heavy impact.
【热门词汇】马航飞机失联事件相关词汇
3月8日凌晨1时20分从吉隆坡飞往北京途中与地面失去联系的马来西亚航空公司MH370航班，截至10日中午，仍没有发现下落。

各方搜救范围和力度正在加大，但没有突破性进展。

航班基本情况
Malaysia Airlines 马来西亚航空
Boeing 777-200 model 波音777-200机型
red-eye flight 红眼航班
227 passengers (including 153 Chinese nationals) and 12 crew 227名乘客（包括153名中国乘客）以及12名机组成员passenger manifest 乘客名单
the plane slipped off radar screens somewhere between Malaysia's east coast and southern Vietnam 该飞机飞至马来西亚东部海岸和越南南部之间某区域时从雷达屏幕上小时。

loss of communication 失联
no distress call 未发求救信号
turn back 折返
passengers with suspicious identifications 身份可疑乘客
go off course 偏离航线
事故可能原因
mechanical failure 机械故障
shutdown of both of the plane's engines 飞机双引擎停车
act of terrorism 恐怖行为
bad/adverse weather 恶劣天气
pilot disorientation 飞行员迷航
explosion on board 机上爆炸
hijacking 劫机
metal fatigue in the airframe 机身金属疲劳
搜救相关词汇
flight data 飞行数据
voice recorders 语音记录仪
sea search 海上搜索
air search 空中搜索
Tears In Heaven
Would you know my name
If I saw you in heaven?
Would you be the same
If I saw you in heaven?
I must be strong and carry on,
Because I know I don't belong here in heaven. Would you hold my hand
If I saw you in heaven?
Would you help me stand
If I saw you in heaven?
I'll find my way through night and day, Because I know I just can't stand here in heaven. Time can bring you down,
Time can bend your knees,
Time can break your heart.
Have you begging please,
Begging please.
Beyond the door there's peace I'm sure
And I know there'll be no more tears in heaven. Would you know my name
If I saw you in heaven?
Would you be the same
If I saw you in heaven?
I must be strong and carry on,
Because I know I don't belong here in heaven. Because I know I don't belong here in heaven.
Latest News Reading (Mar 26th,2014)
MH370----a missing plane
北京时间3月8日凌晨，马来西亚航空公司吉隆坡至北京MH370航班客机与地面失去联络，机上载有239人，包括154名中国乘客。

目前中国、马来西亚、越南等国至少34架飞机和40艘舰船在可疑海域展开搜救，但仍未找到客机下落。

马来西亚航空MH370航班失联迄今已超过50小时，各方传来的碎片化信息难以解释客机失联“谜团”，各国正持续加大救援力度。

截至目前，还没有确切证据显示飞机失事。

所以目前各大媒体都在报道中使用了“失联飞机”（missing plane/jet），而并未将其定义为空难（air disaster或plane crash）。

我们依然在祈祷奇迹的发生，等待MH370的回家。

一架巨大的飞机为何会突然失踪不见？据美联社报道，造成飞机失踪的原因通常包括以下几点：
I. Possible causes:
1.A catastrophic structural failure of the airframe or its Rolls-Royce Trent 800 engines.
Most aircraft are made of aluminum which is susceptible to corrosion over time, especially in areas of high humidity. But given the plane’s long history and impressive safety record, experts suggest this is unlikely.
2. Bad weather.
Planes are designed to fly through most severe storms. However, in June 2009, an Air France flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed during a bad storm over the Atlantic Ocean. Ice built up on the Airbus A330’s airspeed indicators, giving false readings. That, and bad decisions by the pilots, led the plane into a stall causing it to plummet into the sea. In the case of
Saturday’s Malaysia Airlines flight, all indications show that there were clear skies.
3. Pilot disorientation.
Todd Curtis, a former safety engineer said that the pilots could have taken the plane off autopilot and somehow went off course and didn’t real ize it until it was too late. The plane could have flown for another five or six hours from its point of last contact, putting it up to 3,000 miles away. This is unlikely given that the plane probably would have been picked up by radar somewhere. But it’s too early to eliminate it as a possibility.
4._________ of both engines.
In January 2008, a British Airways 777 crashed about 1,000 feet short of the runway at London’s Heathrow Airport. As the plane was coming in to land, the engines lost thrust because of ice buildup in the fuel system. There were no fatalities.Loss of both engines is possible in this case, but the plane could glide for up to 20 minutes, giving pilots plenty of time to make an emergency call.
5. A ________
Several planes have been brought down including Pan Am Flight 103 between London and New York in December 1988. There was also an Air India flight in June 1985 between Montreal and London and a plane in September 1989 flown by French airline Union des Transports Aériens which blew up over the Sahara.
6. __________
A traditional hijacking seems unlikely given that a plane’s captors typically land at an airport and have some type of demand. But a 9/11-like hijacking is possible, with terrorists forcing the plane into the ocean.
7. Pilot suicide.
There were two large jet crashes in the late 1990s — a SilkAir flight and an EgyptAir flight—that are believed to have been caused by pilots deliberately crashing the planes.
8. __________ shoot-down by some country’s military.
In July 1988, the United States Navy missile cruiser USS Vincennes accidentally shot down an Iran Air flight, killing all 290 passengers and crew. In September 1983, a Korean Air Lines flight was shot down by a Russian fighter jet.
II. Narrow escape
一旦发生空难，有没有一些可行的自救方法呢？为保护乘客安全，应对突发事件，飞机上都配备了安全带（safety belt）、救生衣（life vest）、氧气面罩（oxygen mask）、紧急逃生出口（emergency exits）等安全设施。

作为乘客，我们也应时刻保持警惕，尤其是起飞（takeoff）后3分钟与降落（landing）前8分钟这两个时段。

研究显示，七成空难发生在这两个时间段。

而空难之后，经常被提及的一个词就是“黑匣子（black box/data recorder）”。

“黑匣子”的颜色其实是橙色，是用来记录飞机飞行过程中一些重要数据的工具，调查人员可以通过其数据分析出失事原因。

发生空难时，应怎样逃生自救？
澳大利亚教授盖里尔研究了1983年到2000年间105次坠机事件2000多名幸存者的受访记录，总结出6条自救方法。

这些方法在紧急情况下或许能助一臂之力。

1. Do not ___________________
If you are traveling in a family group, you should insist that the airline does not separate you throughout the aircraft. Why? It's only natural that if you're involved in that sort of situation that you're going to want to reunite the group before you evacuate. If you do that it's going to cause havoc.
2. Learn to __________________
How do you undo your seat belt in your car? You press a button. In a plane, you lift a latch. If you can't undo your seat belt then, you can't evacuate and your chances of survival plummet.
3. Find the ___________________
Sit within seven rows of an exit and count exactly how many rows you are from the nearest two exits. Count so that you can find an exit in the dark. And why two exits? Because the nearest exit to you might not be "viable."
4. Sit backward
We would all be safer if airline seats faced backward. But the difficulty with this is that the majority of the traveling public doesn't like traveling with their back facing the direction of travel.
5. A _____________________
"Smoke contains toxic gases, narcotic gases. It contains irritant gases. If you inhale enough of them you will die," explains Galea. He carries a smoke hood but warns that if you're going to follow his example you must learn how to use it. Otherwise you'll waste time trying to put it on —time that could be used for making an exit.
6. ___________________the flight attendants
Listen to the preflight briefing by the flight attendants and read the safety card. Don't do the crossword or flip through the in flight magazine. Be prepared. And if you're about to crash, do adopt the brace position -- head down, ankles behind knees. The brace position is one of the most important things a passenger should take on
board when they fly, it's designed to reduce your chances of being knocked unconscious during a heavy impact.
III. Vocabulary
【热门词汇】马航飞机失联事件相关词汇
Translation
1. 马来西亚航空
2. 波音777-200机型
3. 失联
4. 飞行数据
5. 227名乘客（包括153名中国乘客）以及12名机组成员
6. 语音记录仪
7. 海上搜索/ 空中搜索
8. 搜救队9. 公海
10. 发出求救信号
11. passengers with suspicious identifications
12. passenger manifest
13. no distress call
14.go off course
15. oil slicks
16. flight path
17. signal/radio for help
18. no wreckage
19. international waters
20 the plane slipped off radar screens somewhere between Malaysia's east coast and southern Vietnam
IV. A radio script
Writing a radio script about the missing plane (100 words) MH370----a missing plane
________________________________________________________________ _________________________
________________________________________________________________ _________________________
________________________________________________________________ _________________________
________________________________________________________________ _________________________
________________________________________________________________ _________________________
________________________________________________________________ _________________________
________________________________________________________________ _________________________
________________________________________________________________ _________________________
________________________________________________________________ _________________________
________________________________________________________________ _________________________
________________________________________________________________ _________________________
V. Latest report:
马航MH370班机失联17天后，最终只收到噩耗。

历经17日的揪心煎熬，还是迎来了最不幸的消息：马来西亚总理纳吉布24日晚在吉隆坡宣布，根据英国空难调查处的通报，马来西亚航空公司Flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean.
纳吉布在北京时间24日22时临时召开的新闻发布会上说，他当晚得到英国空难调查处代表的通报。

通报说，国际海事卫星组织对其搜集的卫星数据进行了进一步计算，“借助先前从未在这类调查中应用的一种分析手段，他们得以进一步揭示MH370航班的飞行轨迹”。

纳吉布说：“根据他们新的分析，国际海事卫星组织和空难调查处得出结论，MH370航班沿着南部走廊飞行，其最后的位置是在印度洋中央，（澳大利亚城市）珀斯以西。

”The UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch and Inmarsat, the UK company that provided the satellite data, have concluded that "the missing
jetliner flew along the southern corridor," and its last position was in the middle of the Indian Ocean, west of Perth, Australia. This is a remote location, far from any possible landing sites.
值得注意的是，马来西亚总理在发布消息时使用了"end"(飞行终结)，而不是crash（失事）、plunge（猛跌）甚至ditch(迫降)，措辞十分谨慎。

马方通告让满怀期待的家属和公众猝不及防，但疑团不消：飞机残骸何在？事故原因何起？之前种种猜测何解？疑问不能无解，搜索仍在继续。

让我们静待搜索调查给出答案，希望时间冲淡人间之殇。

在今天这个悲伤的日子，让我们用这首Eric Clapton演唱的《Tears In Heaven》（泪洒天堂）来悼念马航MH370航班上所有逝去的生命：
Tears In Heaven
Would you know my 1.__________,
If I saw you in heaven?
Would you be 2._______________
If I saw you in heaven?
I must be strong and carry on,
Because I know I don't belong here in heaven.
Would you 3._________ my hand
If I saw you in heaven?
Would you help me 4.__________
If I saw you in heaven?
I'll find my 5.______________ through night and day,
Because I know I just can't stand here in heaven.
Time can bring you down,
Time can 6._________________________,
Time can break your heart.
Have you begging please,
Begging please.
7.__________________ there's peace I'm sure
And I know there'll 8._________________tears in heaven…。