时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:2014CRI中国国际广播电台


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Hours of searching have failed to locate the AirAsia flight that went missing en route from Indonesia to Singapore with 162 people on board.


The air search was suspended as night fell and is to resume this morning.


Some ships continued to comb the area near Belitung island in the Java Sea overnight.


Over 100 distraught relatives of passengers from the missing airbus hunkered down at a makeshift crisis center at the Surabaya airport, waiting anxiously for news.


Flight QZ8501, an Airbus A320-200, disappeared over the Java Sea an hour into its flight from Surabaya in eastern Java to Singapore.


Bad weather was reported in the area but no distress 1 call was made.


One man has been confirmed dead and several others injured after an Italian-flagged ferry caught fire off the coast of the Greek island of Corfu on Sunday.


The Italian Navy said 190 of the 478 people on the ferry had evacuated 2 from the ship by late Sunday night.


Most were airlifted by helicopter to other merchant vessels 4 sailing nearby.


The Greek Shipping 5 Minister says the fire now appears to be partly under control and says the ship will be towed to Italy.


Italian and Greek rescue crews have been battling gale-force winds and massive waves as they struggle to evacuate 3 the burning ferry.


The cause of the fire is not known at this time.



1 distress
n.苦恼,痛苦,不舒适;不幸;vt.使悲痛
  • Nothing could alleviate his distress.什么都不能减轻他的痛苦。
  • Please don't distress yourself.请你不要忧愁了。
2 evacuated
撤退者的
  • Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
  • The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。
3 evacuate
v.遣送;搬空;抽出;排泄;大(小)便
  • We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵!
  • They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。
4 vessels
n.血管( vessel的名词复数 );船;容器;(具有特殊品质或接受特殊品质的)人
  • The river is navigable by vessels of up to 90 tons. 90 吨以下的船只可以从这条河通过。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • All modern vessels of any size are fitted with radar installations. 所有现代化船只都有雷达装置。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
5 shipping
n.船运(发货,运输,乘船)
  • We struck a bargain with an American shipping firm.我们和一家美国船运公司谈成了一笔生意。
  • There's a shipping charge of £5 added to the price.价格之外另加五英镑运输费。
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