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》
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2G/DM
a whole new ballgame
achimedes's principle
admission velocity
alexin
architectual volume
automatic docket-printing facility
back-up overspeed governor
barber-surgeon
bookrests
borazines
cannahidivarin
clarke of atom
clientness
coincidence-reading device
continuous bulwark
crystal burn-out
cues
deckensystem
defective transducing phage
delay line registor
demoralisers
dhaulagiris
Dissen am Teutoburger Wald
dos-a-dos
drive element
film process
Fleming, Sir Alexander
forenames
gallantish
gas electrode
get one's foot on the ladder
government expenditure policy
half section
high lights
hipponix foliacea
Hortensia
hybrid digital-analogue circuit
ichthyomorphic
ilion
indexed I/O
indices of diffraction
Indy Car Series
inflationism
intermediate pressure compressor
intrasphenoidal
jump out of one's skin
lachish
lathe brush wheel
lived it up
Load Game
lower confidence limit
magnetic region
mammary fibroadenoma
mandinkas
memorializing
minimum premium
moisture eliminator
motioned
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Ninevites
oil residue
Organa genitalia feminina externa
outgoing trunk jack
Pavlov pouch
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pert.
piezoelectric calibrator
pinfaensis
pneumatic electronic hydraulic system
pneunatic sand rammer
pressure-time method,Gibson method
proximate causes
pustejovsky
quasi-linear form
ransom bill
recurrent capsular cataract
rienda
riffled tube
Romahapa
Saul Steinberg
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sell up
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SPACstation
spectral density tensor
staff only
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three yoke of oxen
Tibergite
transonic shock wave
transport mark
Trizolin
Tsebelda
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unit mold
valihas
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vowel quality
willow twig
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