2019-03-14
Ethiopian flight 302: second new Boeing 737 to crash in four months
*Ethiopian 埃塞俄比亚
*Boeing 波音 oe之间元音连读会多出一个/w/的音
*航班机型可以读成单个字母seven-three-seven, 也可以读成seven-thirty-seven
*months 结尾的读音有两种，一是把th和s都分别读出来，一是直接发一个z的音
① An Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed on Sunday near Addis Ababa, killing all 157 people on board.
*Airlines （美式）航空公司 （英式 airway) →budget airlines 廉价航空
② Few details about the crash are yet available.
③ The Boeing 737 MAX 8, a brand new plane only registered in November, disappeared from the radar six minutes into the flight.
*into the flight = after taking off "into"表示“进入某种状态”
④ Immediate comparisons have been drawn with Lion Air flight 610, also a MAX 8, which crashed just over four months ago.
【赏析】also,just这两个副词的使用很好地强调了本句的重点
*禁航 ground all the planes
⑤ Boeing 737-MAX is the latest iteration of the 737, the world's bestselling plane, ever more capable of flying autonomously.
*iteration = iterate v. 迭代 doing sth thing again and again to improve it = upgrade
→reiterate v. 重申
⑥ The new plane automatically compensates if it believes its angle puts it at a risk of stalling.
*compensate：v. 弥补
angle：流体力学专业术语，来自attack angle（攻角）
⑦ Autonomy, however, can bring problems.
⑧ It is notable that insurers considering driverless cars worry most about the period when highly autonomous vehicles will coexist with human drivers, the uncertain interface between human and artificial intelligence.
*notable： 值得关注的
⑨ Boeing argued that if pilots followed existing procedures, there should be no danger.
⑩ Past crashes, however, have shown that the sensors on which aircraft computer systems rely can malfunction, and that pilots who have grown to trust the technology can become rapidly bewildered when things go wrong.
⑪ All too human reactions led to disaster.
