时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:365个英语简短小故事


英语课

Alabama Airlines has notified 1 its pilots to stop topping off their fuel tanks. Alarmed, pilot Buck 2 Rogers sent a copy of the memo 3 to Time Magazine, which investigated the matter. It discovered that AA was reacting to a 50-percent increase in fuel prices in the last year alone. The memo warned pilots to put only the amount of fuel into the plane that was necessary to reach the destination.


The memo reminded pilots that their primary responsibility was to ensure that AA's profits increased every quarter. Topping off the tanks resulted in extra fueling time and extra weight. The extra time and weight were reducing company profits. The memo concluded with these instructions: turn off the engines when stuck in long lines on the runways; if there is a strong tailwind, turn off all the engines and glide 4; and, wherever it is available, use "economy" jet fuel.


Pilots immediately complained, saying that such a policy put their lives and the public’s lives at great risk. Yielding to their complaints, AA allowed pilots to put in an extra ten gallons of fuel.


Even with the extra ten gallons, Rogers had two near disasters. The first time, his plane ran out of fuel just as the wheels touched the runway. His plane had to be towed 5 to the terminal. Rogers received a congratulatory phone call from AA's president! The second time, Rogers had to land his plane on a freeway, still under construction, 10 miles short of the Atlanta runway. This time the president told him he was making AA look bad. He told Rogers to save fuel AND land at the airport.


“People have no idea how little AA cares about their safety,” Rogers said. “Saving fuel is more important to management than saving lives.”

 



通知,告知,报告( notify的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Competition winners will be notified by post. 将发信通知竞赛的优胜者。
  • I notified the post office that my address had changed. 我把变更的地址通知了邮局。
n.雄鹿,雄兔;v.马离地跳跃
  • The boy bent curiously to the skeleton of the buck.这个男孩好奇地弯下身去看鹿的骸骨。
  • The female deer attracts the buck with high-pitched sounds.雌鹿以尖声吸引雄鹿。
n.照会,备忘录;便笺;通知书;规章
  • Do you want me to send the memo out?您要我把这份备忘录分发出去吗?
  • Can you type a memo for me?您能帮我打一份备忘录吗?
n./v.溜,滑行;(时间)消逝
  • We stood in silence watching the snake glide effortlessly.我们噤若寒蝉地站着,眼看那条蛇逍遥自在地游来游去。
  • So graceful was the ballerina that she just seemed to glide.那芭蕾舞女演员翩跹起舞,宛如滑翔。
v.拖,拉,拽( tow的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Our car was towed away by the police. 我们的汽车被警察拖走了。
  • The tugboat towed the damaged ship into port. 拖船把坏了的船拖进港口。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
学英语单词
Acetokhlorin
Akrar
angle protractor
annuity for life
barometric pipe
beater section
black someone's eye
blushful
boonton
butyrospermum parkil
calcium serum level
carfilzomib
cause of infection
clear line of demarcation
clearance between layers
clustered distribution
compound solvent
computer telephone exchange
cyclosomes
deepcut
Dermochelidae
Dhrol
dihydrocholesterol
dissociable
drainage on embankment slope
elaoptene
emms
encephalophagy
estate by the entirety
five-shooter
forward scatter visibility meter
free-radical termination
fresh crime
full word boundary
gastralgias
gendered
gensdarmes
graciliflora
Gudenå
hayland
human death
incipient discharge voltage
inner-vibrating mould dragger
Juniperus convallium
land ours
legal ideological system
logicalize
lowitz arc
macrograzer
malignant exostosis
Mansfield Park
matrilineal descent
mento-sternal adhesion
mercury vapour
metallurgical works
methionine-enkephaline
methylmalonate
molybdenum silicide
moved
multicolour cloth
nerdlingers
nonblondes
octal numberal
odo(u)r specialist cell
oil removing
open cargo
oxide matrix
pages to view
pallidity
pen-pals
peromyscopsylla himalaica
phaseolus trilobatus schreb.
physical quantity sensor
picker locking lever
piecewise linear function generator
plan of wage fund
point representation
poison ivy
PVH-1
reverse a conviction
riding off
saloon passenger
sampling experiment
scaly cap
secretases
see through clarity
sherardizing galvanizing
shunting
speerings
St-Viaud
stock down
stook
sweep frequency radar responder beacon
teeth
thrust augmenting ejector
trumpet fish
underresolved
vertebral part of medial surface of lung
vinic ether
water chestnut plants
what-ho
winstead