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英语课
By Ricci Shryock
Dakar
16 April 2008


United Nations workers joined fire crews combing through the smoldering 1 wreckage 2 of a passenger plane that failed to take off and crashed into a crowded market district of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo Tuesday.  An airline official said the crash killed many of the people in the market. For VOA, Ricci Shryock reports from our West and Central Africa bureau in Dakar.


As rescue workers searched for bodies amid the wreckage of the Hewa Bora Airways 3 plane, the death toll 4 was still unknown. The airliner 5 was scheduled to fly from Goma to the Congolese capital Kinshasa Tuesday morning. Spokesman for the airline Dirk Cramers said a majority of the passengers survived after the pilot lost control during take-off and smashed into a wall in the market.


Journalist Naomi Schwarz was in Goma and spoke 6 to area aid workers the morning after the crash.


"I spoke to someone at the Red Cross, and they say they're still pulling burned bodies, burned corpses 7 out of the wreckage and the death toll, they expect it to rise," she said.


Hours after the crash, Schwarz visited a hospital in Goma where victims were being treated.


"The hospital was chaotic 8. It was just a couple hours after the crash. One nurse told me the victims were pretty much everywhere," she said. "There was a list posted outside of survivors 9, and there were a bunch of names on it, and there were people crowded around to see whose names were on there."


Just last week, the European Union added Hewa Bora Airways to a list of airlines banned from flying into the 27-nation bloc 10 due to safety concerns.




v.用文火焖烧,熏烧,慢燃( smolder的现在分词 )
  • The mat was smoldering where the burning log had fallen. 燃烧的木棒落下的地方垫子慢慢燃烧起来。 来自辞典例句
  • The wood was smoldering in the fireplace. 木柴在壁炉中闷烧。 来自辞典例句
n.(失事飞机等的)残骸,破坏,毁坏
  • They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
  • New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。
航空公司
  • The giant jets that increasingly dominate the world's airways. 越来越称雄于世界航线的巨型喷气机。
  • At one point the company bought from Nippon Airways a 727 jet. 有一次公司从日本航空公司买了一架727型喷气机。
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
n.客机,班机
  • The pilot landed the airliner safely.驾驶员使客机安全着陆。
  • The passengers were shepherded across the tarmac to the airliner.旅客们被引导走过跑道去上飞机。
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
n.死尸,尸体( corpse的名词复数 )
  • The living soldiers put corpses together and burned them. 活着的战士把尸体放在一起烧了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Overhead, grayish-white clouds covered the sky, piling up heavily like decaying corpses. 天上罩满了灰白的薄云,同腐烂的尸体似的沉沉的盖在那里。 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说
adj.混沌的,一片混乱的,一团糟的
  • Things have been getting chaotic in the office recently.最近办公室的情况越来越乱了。
  • The traffic in the city was chaotic.这城市的交通糟透了。
幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
  • The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
  • survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
n.集团;联盟
  • A solid bloc of union members support the decision.工会会员团结起来支持该决定。
  • There have been growing tensions within the trading bloc.贸易同盟国的关系越来越紧张。
学英语单词
adverse drug reaction
alkahest
angular orientation
antihelix
anzengruber
aripple
basketball back stop
binary matrix
bridge opening contraction
burst out
Cairofa
causerie
CD caddy
cheet scrap
chop amputation
cilley
confined groundwater, confined water
congenital deformity of the tongue
constant angular velocity
constant-resistance dc potentiometer
contained
Corydalis chamdoensis
counter control
crane vessel
crataeguss
crop and cobble shear
Cuc, R.
CW-laser illuminator
cyclopentanepentone
cylinder grease cock
despun motor
dicartron
drinking-water pump
electrotempering
elevensies
external characteristics
fan-clubs
feasible constraint
Filaria conjunctivae
flow noise
fuckos
functionated
gal operon
genus cimicifugas
gerl complex
grain-boundary attack
helpless
hemitriakis complicofasciata
highly acidic
impedance matching transformer
indian clubs
instantaneous repair rate
internal resistance of power source
isotope change
kernel of an integral transform
Langston Hughes
lavender-water
LBCD
Leukopterin
levefulle
lifo retail method
loan-to-value ratio
Lumicon
Macao monetary unit
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive
megamera
mixed model assembly
mushroom workers' lup
non-operating loss
out of danger notice
outer stripper
over-stress
overall market price coverage
Phulābād
plant comparative anatomy
plated adjustable turning chair
Plymoute rock
projective A-module
quick-work
radiation transfer index
random coil model
replacement of goods
responsible observer
romanticist
ropemen
Rosso, Cima di
rubber-faced
sequential inference machine
serrated face
setting base
shamlas
silver owl
slow-burning film
SNICP
specific conduction system
Stegersbach
streamlined landing gear axle
tlc plate
Toxocarpus wightianus
transalpina
weevilled grain
wontedly