跟aci背单词学航空方面的英语3-ag真人试玩平台

第三集 莫衷一是——飞箭航空1285号航班

第三集 莫衷一是——飞箭航空1285号航班
episode 3 "split decision"/"military crash conspiracy"
www.tudou.com/programs/view/ju9imtugrhw/
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narrator: military families in kentucky prepare to home loved ones from overseas.
man: the plan was to have a for them, and then those soldiers would be reunited with their families and friends.
narrator: at the same time, at a small canadian airport...
man: there's wreckage all over the place; there was destruction.
man: well, nobody could've survived this.
narrator: 256 people are dead. it's one of the worst accidents of all time.
man: any time a crash of this sort would occur, immediate suspicions would be raised.
narrator: answers will be hard to come by ...
man: it does not advance safety to get the wrong cause of an accident.
narrator: ...as two radically different scenarios for the crash emerge.

word list
1. split decision 【拳击】分歧判定
参见：https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/split_decision 。
aci的s11~s13有些题目起的很有意思，化用了一些习语，举几个例子：
s12e02 "fire in the hold"
→ fire in the hole 小心有雷（运送的"失效"氧气罐）
vs. 货舱(hold)起火
s12e03 "caution to the wind"
→ throw/cast to the wind(s) 不顾危险，鲁莽行事，冒险（即机长冒失闯入施工中的跑道）
vs. 小心对待台风（指机长的过度谨慎）
s12e04 "pushed to the limit"
→ push sb. to the limit 逼迫某人到无法容忍的地步（即朱卫民当时的生活境况）
vs. 把油门杆推到最大（limit）【最大叫limit，慢车idle】
s12e05 "blind landing"
→ blind 盲降，仪表着陆
vs. 真·盲（目）降（落）
s13e02 "speed trap"
→ speed trap 警察使用雷达以检测汽车超速的监视区
vs. 高速下的困境（trap）（导致战机目视能力不足）
s13e03 "lost in translation"
→ lost in translation（文学作品等）内涵在翻译中丢失
vs. 在从苏式仪表到西方仪表的转变（translation）中迷失（lost）
s13e08 "imperfect pitch"
→ perfect pitch 完全音高感，绝对音感
vs. 不佳的(imperfect)俯仰(pitch)
2. come by 得到，找到
【示例】以下几例均选自国外期刊等：
jobs will be hard to come by for a while
reliable "real time" information is hard to come by.
why we should take performance measurement on faith (facts being hard to come by and not terribly important)

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• [kə´neidiən]   a.加拿大的n.加拿大人   ()
• [pə´fɔ:məns]   n.履行；行为；工作   ()
• [´meʒəmənt]   n.测量；尺寸；宽度   ()
• [´terəbli]   ad.可怕地   ()
• [kən´tʌki]   n.肯塔基   ()
• [ri´sepʃən]   n.接待；欢迎；招待会   ()
• [´mæsiv]   a.厚实的；魁伟的   ()
• [´kɔ:ʃən]   n.&vt.小心；告诫；警告   ()
• [,eivi´eiʃən]   n.飞行(术)；航空(学)   ()
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