英语听力精选进阶版 15662

 

Business Matters: Flight 370 clue 13 Mar¹ 14

Thu, 13 Mar 14

As the Chinese authorities release pictures of what may be wreckage², Mary Sciavo - former Inspector³ General of the United States Department of Transportation, now a leading aviation lawyer - tells us what she thinks happened to Malaysia Airlines flight 370. Andy Hosken reports on corruption⁴ in Ukraine. Lady Barbara Judge - former head of the UK Atomic Energy Authority, now head of the taskforce on nuclear safety at Fukushima - on whether she thinks there's been significant progress in the $106bn clean-up operation. Peter Morici in our Washington DC studio and Simon Littlewood at our bureau in Singapore argue alternative energy, Russian gas and whether kids should be taught maths Chinese-style or the classics in the manner of British Benedictine monks⁵.

1 mar   

vt.破坏，毁坏，弄糟

参考例句：

• It was not the custom for elderly people to mar the picnics with their presence.大人们照例不参加这样的野餐以免扫兴。
• Such a marriage might mar your career.这样的婚姻说不定会毁了你的一生。

2 wreckage   

n.（失事飞机等的）残骸，破坏，毁坏

参考例句：

• 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。

3 inspector   

n.检查员，监察员，视察员

参考例句：

• The inspector was interested in everything pertaining to the school.视察员对有关学校的一切都感兴趣。
• The inspector was shining a flashlight onto the tickets.查票员打着手电筒查看车票。

4 corruption   

n.腐败，堕落，贪污

参考例句：

• The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
• The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。

5 monks   

n.修道士，僧侣( monk的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The monks lived a very ascetic life. 僧侣过着很清苦的生活。
• He had been trained rigorously by the monks. 他接受过修道士的严格训练。 来自《简明英汉词典》