夏说英语新闻晨读 第588期:缅甸机场成功迫降

本期内容：

A Myanmar pilot safely landed a jet without front wheels after the landing gear failed todeploy. The Myanmar National Airlines plane skidded³ down the runway at Mandalay airport before grinding to a stop. The pilot of the Embraer 190 was praised for the landing, in which none of the 89 passengers was hurt. The captain circled the airport twice to allow air traffic controllers to determine if the landing gear was down, the airline said.

land: vt. 着陆；获得
He landed a job with a law firm.
他在一家律师事务所得到了一份工作。
land in your lap: 不经意间得到
landing gear: 起落架；起落装置
fail to: 失败，没能做到
He failed in his attempt to break the record.
他未能打破纪录。
deploy¹: vt. 展开；调用
skid² down: 滑行（slide）
grinding to a stop: 停下来
grind to a halt: 停下来
Work would have ground to a halt without air conditioning.
假如没有空调，工作恐怕就得停下来了。
circle: vt. 盘旋；绕圈子
go/run around in circles
The discussion kept going round in circles.
讨论一直在原地兜圈子。

1 deploy   

v.（军）散开成战斗队形，布置，展开

参考例句：

• The infantry began to deploy at dawn.步兵黎明时开始进入战斗位置。
• The president said he had no intention of deploying ground troops.总统称并不打算部署地面部队。

2 skid   

v.打滑 n.滑向一侧；滑道 ，滑轨

参考例句：

• He braked suddenly,causing the front wheels to skid.他突然剎车，使得前轮打了滑。
• The police examined the skid marks to see how fast the car had been travelling.警察检查了车轮滑行痕迹，以判断汽车当时开得有多快。

3 skidded   

v.（通常指车辆） 侧滑( skid的过去式和过去分词 )；打滑；滑行；（住在）贫民区

参考例句：

• The car skidded and hit a lamp post. 那辆汽车打滑撞上了路灯杆。
• The car skidded and overturned. 汽车打滑翻倒了。