英语新闻听写 联合大陆与飞行员续签合同

On Friday, United Continental¹ Holdings Inc and its pilots union voted to approve an extension on the labor² contract covering United's 12,000 pilots.

周五，联合大陆与飞行员协会举行投票，同意与1.2万名飞行员续签工作合同。

The extension also included a 22 percent wage hike by 2018.

续签条款还包括到2018年之前增加22%工资。

There were over ten thousand pilots in the union for the negotiation³.

目前，1万多名飞行员仍在谈判过程中。

And seventy nine percent of the pilots in attendance agreed to the extension.

在出席投票活动的飞行员中，有79%同意续签。

The between United and the Air Line Pilots Association now extends through January 31st, 2019.

联合大陆与民航飞行员协会的工作期限延长至2019年1月31日。

1 continental   

adj.大陆的，大陆性的，欧洲大陆的

参考例句：

• A continental climate is different from an insular one.大陆性气候不同于岛屿气候。
• The most ancient parts of the continental crust are 4000 million years old.大陆地壳最古老的部分有40亿年历史。

2 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

3 negotiation   

n.谈判，协商

参考例句：

• They closed the deal in sugar after a week of negotiation.经过一星期的谈判，他们的食糖生意成交了。
• The negotiation dragged on until July.谈判一直拖到7月份。