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This aerial photo shows a plume 1 of ash rising from the volcano in southern Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier 2, 19 Apr, 2010




Flight cancellations from the Iceland volcano eruption 3 are creating costs and inconveniences all the way to Asia.


The International Air Transport Association says global carriers are losing an estimated $200 million a day in revenue as a result of airplane groundings related to the Iceland volcano.   Albert Tjoeng, a Singapore-based spokesman for the association, says that is just part of the problem.


"There are people stranded 4 in Europe who cannot fly back home to Asia," said Tjoeng.  "There are travelers who are stranded in Asia who cannot fly back home.  At the same time, goods and services cannot be delivered."


Travelers waiting around here are missing out on income because they cannot return to work, like this French physical therapist hoping to get back to Paris.


TRAVELLER: "My office is closed.  I have to tell my patients I cannot be in France.  It is quite stress[ful] about making money, because it is my work."


On the other end of the stalled air route are passengers like Nemo Kim, a news anchor for an international broadcaster in Seoul, who cannot get back from London.  She has been getting text messages for days from her carrier, Korean Air, that flights are canceled.  She is hoping to board a plane next Sunday.


"If there are no flights, even until then, I will probably have to send my luggage by mail, and then try and get a train ticket going to Madrid… and then maybe try and get back to Korea via New York or via Bangkok or Hong Kong.  Either way, it is going to be an expensive trip," said Kim.


The flight cancellations are expected to have additional repercussions 5 for smaller Southeast Asia countries, where travel and tourism is a major share of the economy.

 



n.羽毛;v.整理羽毛,骚首弄姿,用羽毛装饰
  • Her hat was adorned with a plume.她帽子上饰着羽毛。
  • He does not plume himself on these achievements.他并不因这些成就而自夸。
n.冰川,冰河
  • The glacier calved a large iceberg.冰河崩解而形成一个大冰山。
  • The upper surface of glacier is riven by crevasses.冰川的上表面已裂成冰隙。
n.火山爆发;(战争等)爆发;(疾病等)发作
  • The temple was destroyed in the violent eruption of 1470 BC.庙宇在公元前1470年猛烈的火山爆发中摧毁了。
  • The eruption of a volcano is spontaneous.火山的爆发是自发的。
a.搁浅的,进退两难的
  • He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里, 身无分文,一筹莫展。
  • I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市,既没有钱,又没有朋友。
n.后果,反响( repercussion的名词复数 );余波
  • The collapse of the company will have repercussions for the whole industry. 这家公司的垮台将会给整个行业造成间接的负面影响。
  • Human acts have repercussions far beyond the frontiers of the human world. 人类行为所产生的影响远远超出人类世界的范围。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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abrupt deceleration
apothecia
application business plan
atbs
autoanalysis
belt lacing
Blair Castle
blood destroying organ
blur spot
bullet vote
burn combined with spinal injury
Californianizes
capable of gas-dynamic support
caryota urenss
Citrus bergamia
clubiona corrugata
compressed air reservoir
conduction glaze
coniferous timber
cosmetic medicine
crew compartment
crosspoint connection
deavers
deep-seal trap
discloseable transaction
Dnovskiy Rayon
dummy spits
dummy variables
edmund randolph
entoblasts
equidistant hypersurface
ertor
exanimation
exempt ... from
exsanguinous
geeser
generation of data group
give something the once-over
Gorong
ground water cascade
guanylhydrazine
Ilex maximowicziana
indicating transmitter
isospin space
Jewsrael
lead optimization
Lion Rock Tunnel
micaceous iron oxide anti-corrosive primer
minits
moblike
molar solubility
muskely
Nasdaq stock market
not ready for data line
notalgia
olitski
optimum working zone
over-interpreted
oxanthrone
parameter procedure
phase rotation relay
Phlomis umbrosa
play book
polycytosines
prodine
prostaticus
public-security
putting on the ritz
Pyorha-ri
quasi-loan
quicksilver ability
recognizon
save room
sea breeze of the second kind
self-construal
self-reset relay
Seongju
set the table in a roar
short smokestack
shortcircuited
Shortfall risk
solenoidal lens
submersible fuse
Sulphaphenylpyrazol
support-head
surface tension test
tensor product of matrices
through with
tide over difficulties
tight loop waiting
tiny electric motor
tonofibrils
transcript unit
tripe-de-roche
unlevel substance of leather
uterine bleeding
utilization factor of payload
vinyl methyl ether
vitamine A ketone
wax vent
wire gauze with asbestos
zymolyses