An Australian expert on consumer behaviour has warned that this year's slow Christmas sales marked the beginning of a changing retail climate. Dr Paul Harrison from Deakin University says for the last five years, Australian retailers have enjoyed a s

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 澳洲ABC新闻快递2010年

Heathrow Airport was forced to cancel scores of flights and other aircraft flying into the UK had to be diverted to other airports after a crash landing The busiest international runway on earth, today, it was at a standstill, planes static, and fro

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Anita, Taiwan (Taipei) speaker From my city what is the best way to get to the airport? I live in Taipei and the best way to get to the airport is to drive the car but because of traffic is bad, recently I took the bus to the airport and I think that

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 一起闲话英语-English Chitchat

Many people had to wait around in the airport for a long time London Heathrow is the biggest airport in the UK, and it also handles more international passenger traffic than any other airport in the world. For this reason, expansion was planned and

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 Take Away English

影片对白 Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world , I think about the arrival's gate at Heathrow airport.General opinion start to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed. But I don't see that, seems to me that love is everywher

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(33) / 评论(0) 分类 影视英语

1. President Barack Obama travels to the Kennedy Space Center today to reassure workers that America's space adventures will continue despite the coming end of space shuttle flights. The Obama space plan relies on private companies to fly to the spac

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(310) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2010(四月)

London Fears Losing Aviation Relevance Four years ago, environmental protestors from Greenpeace demonstrated atop a passenger jet at London's Heathrow airport. The stunt gained widespread media attention, and the battle for the future of Britain's av

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Dubai International Airport (DXB) has retained its crown of being the world's busiest international airport in terms of passenger numbers. In 2014, it overtook London's Heathrow airport, which had been number one for more than a decade. DXB handled a

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(91) / 评论(0) 分类 英语生活新闻

Nothing evokes a sense of place like the heady waft of a familiar smell. 没有什么能像醉人的熟悉气味那样唤起人们身临其境的感觉。 And passengers travelling from Heathrow's Terminal 2 can now be transported to across the world

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(30) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Service levels at Heathrow airport are a national embarrassment according to the international aviation chief Giovanni Bisignani. He said that UK regulators should never have allowed the airport to increase charges by a massive 86 percent over the ne

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(32) / 评论(0) 分类 英伦广角

Britain's airports are warning travelers they could face major delays Thursday when civil servants and teachers plan to take part in a nationwide strike. BAA, which runs Heathrow, Stansted, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Southampton airports, made

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(30) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

空客首席运营官谈航空产业的未来 There's a reason that there are only two major manufacturers in the world today, Airbus and Boeing, building aircraft, 100 seats and above. It is difficult to do because you don't just need to get the air

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(34) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Good afternoon! Im Naamua Delaney at the CNN Center in Atlanta. Heres a look at whats happening NOW IN THE NEWS. The governments ability to eavesdrop on phone calls and emails of suspected terrorists is at the center of a showdown today. The House c

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 商业报道2008年(三)月

Aviation capacity 航空动力 Limited skies 领空限制 Expanding airport capacity in the south-east is a bet on the future of travel 扩大东南地区的航空能力对旅行的未来至关重要 EVEN before Sir Howard Davies, an economist mullin

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(28) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人文艺系列

Listen to the dialogues and fill in T for True, F for False. A:International Office, may I help you? B:Yes.I'm a student form Taiwan. l'm going to attend the master course this summer. l'm thinking whether you can book a taxi for me to pick me up at

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(37) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力练习题

Kevin is very excited. His boss has asked him to go to a big sales conference. You remember that Kevin has written a paper for his company about the market for cat food. One of the top people in his company has seen the paper and likes it. The top pe

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(29) / 评论(0) 分类 听播客学英语

本期内容: Inadecisionvehementlyopposedbysomeministers,BritainsConservativegovernmentapprovedacontroversialexpansionofHeathrowairportthatwilladdathirdrunwayatacostof18bn.TheplanforHeathrow,westofLondon,beatarivalproposaltobuildasecondrunwayatGat

发表于:2019-02-21 / 阅读(33) / 评论(0) 分类 夏说英语新闻晨读

Britain 英国 NIMBYism and the election 邻避主义与选举 The anti-tarmac vote 柏油碎石路反对者投票 The Conservatives are getting squeezed over big building projects 保守党在大型建筑工程上束手无策 ON first glance, the co

发表于:2019-03-09 / 阅读(90) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人商业系列