用法学习: 1. Air India joins fare war加入票价之战; offers 30% discount on all fare bands. Air India remains as a state-owned company through Air India Limited. However, government ownership of the airline has subsequently led to multiple problems, such as mounting financial losses, shrinking market share, over-staffing人浮于事, and escalating labour disputes. Air India's domestic market share declined from 19.2% to 14%, primarily because of stiff competition激烈竞争 from private Indian carriers. Furthermore, it is also believed that mismanagement 管理不善 and corruption have impacted Air India's financial performance. In August 2011, Air India's invitation to join Star Alliance was suspended as a result of its failure to meet the minimum standards for the membership. In order to raise funds for reconstruction, Air India decided to sell and lease back all its dreamliners. Historically, there have been attempts to re-privatize Air India to turn it around, but in 2001 Singapore Airlines pulled out of 退出, 撤出 the bidding process. As of 2013, Air India has showed signs of recovery with its domestic market share increasing to 19.1% as of May 2013 but still lags behind other major carriers IndiGo, Jet Airways and Spice Jet. 2. inadvertent (ˌinədˈvɜ:tənt) adj I. 不小心的, 不留神的. 没注意的. failing to act carefully or considerately; inattentive. he government has said it was an inadvertent error. II. 不是故意的, 无意的. resulting from heedless action; unintentional. an inadvertent insult. Bibi Inadvertently Puts a Hitler Mustache on Angela Merkel默克尔. advertent (ædˈvɜrtnt) adj. attentive; heedful. 3. 比伯酒驾事件视频: Justin Bieber is normally swift on his feet on stage, but he's more footloose ( I. Having no attachments or ties; free to do as one pleases. free to go or do as one wishes. II. eager to travel; restless: to feel footloose. footloose and fancy-free Fig. without long-term responsibilities or commitments. All the rest of them have wives, but John is footloose and fancy-free. Mary never stays long in any job. She likes being footloose and fancy-free. ) than steady-footed脚步稳健的 in a new video released by Florida police from his January DUI arrest. Watch the footage above to see Justin's shaky attempt at walking a straight line. Those orange sneakers are quite the match for the jail garb 囚服( I. A distinctive style or form of clothing; dress: clerical garb. II. An outward appearance; a guise: presented their radical ideas in the garb of moderation. A prison uniform囚服 is any uniform worn by individuals incarcerated in a prison, jail or similar facility of detention. Prison uniforms in the United States often consist of a distinctive orange or yellow jumpsuit or two piece surgical scrub set to 目的是 make escape more difficult, as it is difficult for an escaped inmate to avoid recognition and recapture in such a distinctive attire. Originally a horizontal white and black bee-striped uniform and hat was used. Striped条纹的 prison uniforms commonly used in the 19th century were abolished in the United States early in the 20th century because their continued use as a badge of shame was considered undesirable. Through most of the twentieth century attitudes were different towards philosophies of rehabilitation. Fair treatment of prisoners and a growing number of non-violent, working class offenders prompted such a change in attitudes, and clothing and conditions changed to serve the concept of rehabilitation rather than punishment. As a result, work clothes were introduced, perhaps because of the concept of honest labor helping to turn an inmate into an honest citizen. Blue jeans and light blue denim or chambray work shirts became the norm, a tradition still followed in some state prison systems today. In federal prisons, this concept was introduced in the form of khaki pants and shirts, still in use.) he ended up wearing! The footage is part of 10 hours of jail surveillance released by the Miami Dade County Corrections Department at the request of The Associated Press and other news organisations. The rest of the videos show Justin doing push-ups, pacing a jail cell and talking to fellow arrested pal Khalil Sharieff. However, we've been spared the worst. Justin's lawyers asked the judge to withhold four clips showing the 19-year-old urinating in a cup for a drug test and "in various states of undress which show personal parts". PHEW! Breath tests revealed that Justin's blood-alcohol level was below 0.02, but he was still two years under the drinking age in the US. Drug tests found marijuana and antidepressant Xanax in his system. "B'day week," Justin tweeted on Tuesday. "Wish the world would learn to believe in the goodness in people and be kind to one another. Together we can change the world." 4. Swedish movie banned(Children's Island): The board ruled the 49-second masturbation sequence, which includes a shot of the boy's erect penis, was likely to cause offence. The classification board originally gave the film an R18+ rating but this decision reportedly was overturned on appeal following an application by the Australian Federal Police. Fairfax said there was no evidence the film had been refused classification in other countries. The Australian Communications and Media Authority referred the film to the board last year after receiving a complaint. 5. bomb someone out to cause people to flee by bombing their homes and towns. to be forced to leave a place because of being attacked by bombs. Half the town was bombed out of their homes in the raid. The planes bombed the villagers out. The attack bombed out everyone for miles around. bomb something out 炸毁 to destroy a place by bombing. I hope they don't bomb the village out. The planes bombed out the factory. bomb out (of something) Sl. to flunk out of or fail at something, especially school or a job. She was afraid she would bomb out of school. Her brother bombed out the year before. to bomb out 失败, 输掉, 出局, 惨败 (intransitive, idiomatic) To fail; to produce no or very poor results; to drop out of or be eliminated from a competition. Jane Fonda may be a hit at the box office, but she is bombing out politically. Brazil started as favourites and as luck would have it命运捉弄, 造化弄人, they bombed out in the quarterfinals. bombed–out I. destroyed by bombs. a bombed–out factory. II. forced out of a house or a building by bombing. III. extremely dilapidated or run-down. a bombed–out inner-city neighborhood.
Motorcycles to filter through traffic from July: NSW is the first state to make it legal for motorcyclists to move up in between stopped cars in traffic. Motorcyclists will be allowed to legally ride between cars on NSW roads from July as part of new measures to ease 缓解 traffic congestion. The NSW government on Wednesday became the first state in Australia to legalise the practice of lane filtering following a successful two month trial. Under the scheme, fully-licensed riders will be able to ride through stationary traffic at speeds up to 30 km/h, but not in school zones, beside kerbs or next to trucks and buses. Roads minister Duncan Gay said the decision was a common sense solution. "Last year we held a successful trial in Sydney CBD of motorcyclists being exempt from existing lane filtering laws in an attempt to ease road congestion and measure potential safety issues for other road users," he said. "As a result of the trial we will introduce a new law that will permit fully licensed motorcyclists to legally filter past stationary vehicles at intersections when it is safe to do so." Road safety experts have cautiously谨慎 welcomed the move, but urged authorities to monitor the speeds at which motorcyclists conduct lane filtering. The chairman of road safety at the NSW injury risk management research centre, Raphael Grzebieta, said filtering between moving vehicles at speeds greater than 30km/h brought an increased risk of serious injury or death. "At high speeds, lane filtering can become quite a concern and very dangerous – but at lower speeds it shouldn't be an issue," he said. "The 30km/h threshold is very wise. "In a 30km/h impact with a pedestrian, for instance, research has shown there's a 10 per cent risk of a fatality or serious injury; at about 60km/h it's around the 90 per cent mark." The NSW government will create a new law specifically banning riders from filtering through traffic at more than 30km/h. Professor Grzebieta endorsed the law being limited to experienced riders and called on the RMS to monitor and evaluate the scheme after 12 months. Motorcycle council of NSW spokesman Chris Burns welcomed the change. "Lane filtering has been common practice for motorcycle riders across the country and overseas for decades," he says. "The benefits of lane filtering have been internationally recognised as a solution to traffic congestion in built up areas and will assist in relieving 缓解 congestion issues on NSW's major and minor routes thereby assisting drivers with their daily commutes." Mr Burns said it could also prevent riders from being injured. "Some drivers don't actually understand that by filtering, riders are getting out of the rear-end danger zone which is the most common crash in NSW," he said. "If you are in a car and you get rear ended you might get whiplash ( n.&v. 闪到. 闪了一下子. 抽到. 甩到. 甩一下子. 扫一下子. 鞭子抽一下子. I. the lash of a whip. II. an injury to the upper spine caused by a violent jerk of the head in either a backward or forward or side to side direction. Whiplash is a neck injury caused by the head suddenly moving forward and then back again, for example, in a car accident. (如车祸中，头部突然向前又向后动而造成的) 颈部扭伤. Ms. Kennedy has been whiplashed by assertions that she is at once protected and presumptuous. After a while, he let go of my hand in order to protect his own face from being whiplashed by the low branches. whiplash injury any injury to the neck resulting from a sudden thrusting forwards and snapping back of the unsupported head. Technical name: hyperextension-hyperflexion injury. whiplash是一部2014年电影的名字: A promising young drummer enrolls at a cutthroat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.). "If you're on a bike you get squashed."
新闻短句: 1. The new head 新头目 of the Ukrainian navy has defected叛变, swearing allegiance 宣誓效忠 to the pro-Russia Crimea region. Rear Admiral Denys Berezovsky was only made the head of the country's navy on Saturday, the BBC reports. But now he has sworn an oath on television alongside Crimea's pro-Russian leader. 2. Oscar Pistorius will face trial for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp this evening AEDT. The double amputee(Amputation is the removal of a body extremity by trauma, prolonged constriction, or surgery. As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease process in the affected limb, such as malignancy or gangrene. At the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, Pistorius became the first amputee to win an able-bodied world track medal. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Pistorius became the first double leg amputee to participate in the Olympics when he entered the men's 400 metres and 4 × 400 metres relay races. ) admits he shot the 29-year-old dead the night of Valentine's Day 2013, but he claims it was an accident. 3. The woman who duped Casey Donovan into a six-year relationship with a man she never met has been revealed by The Daily Telegraph. Quoting a source, the newspaper reports that 'Olga' is the fictional name given to Sydney's Jade Katie Cavanagh in Donovan's new autobiography Big Beautiful and Sexy. "I spent six years of my life loving someone who never really existed, being 'supported' by a best friend who was deceiving me from the beginning, pulling all the strings操纵一切," Donovan wrote. "I know everyone gets their heart ripped out ( rip something out of someone or something and rip something out to tear something out of someone or something. The high priest ripped the beating heart out of the sacrificial victim. The priest ripped out the victim's heart. tear your heart out 撕碎 to make you very sad Your article on the death of those students tore my heart out. 关于rip: I. rip something to shreds 撕烂, 撕个粉碎 (=destroy something completely by tearing it): Her skirt was ripped to shreds. II. rip something on something: I ripped my jeans on a sharp nail. III. rip at: The dog went wild, ripping at the tablecloth. a. [intransitive] to be torn. It'll rip if you keep pulling it. b. [transitive] to make a hole in something using force. A bolt of lightning had ripped a hole in the door. IV. [transitive] to remove something quickly by pulling hard. rip something out/from/off/away/down etc: We've ripped out the old fireplace and put in a new one. He ripped off his shirt and dived into the water. Pictures had been ripped from 撕下来 the walls. IV. [transitive] to take something from someone in a way that seems unfair. rip something from someone: She saw a second gold medal cruelly ripped from her grasp yesterday. V. 盗印. 盗刻. 盗录. computing to copy music from a website or CD to a computer or hand-held device. let rip informal I. to suddenly become angry with someone and shout at them. She lost her temper and let rip at them. II. to start to do something with a lot of energy. When the music started they let rip, dancing and jumping around. III. British very informal to let gas come out of your bottom. let something rip mainly American informal to make a vehicle move very fast. rip the heart out of something mainly journalism to destroy or seriously damage something. These changes will rip the heart out of the island's economy.) every now and again but that … That just took the cake for me(I. (idiomatic, US) To be especially good or outstanding. Thanks! You guys take the cake. Once the party was over, everyone agreed that Elizabeth and her Harriet Tubman getup had taken the cake. II. (idiomatic, US) To be particularly bad, objectionable, or egregious. I've seen bad grammar, but this takes the cake. something takes the cake something is the most extreme example I've known some jerks but you take the cake. Usage notes: usually said about something bad. )!" 4. Ms Prince, 51, says she begged her supervisor to allow her to go to the bathroom but he denied permission不允许. She says she asked several more times over the following 30 or 40 minutes. Eventually, she says, she lined a cardboard box with a plastic bag and urinated into the box. "I knew I couldn't hold it any longer," she said. "I would have wet my pants and I would never live it down(never live something down 没好日子过, 羞愧死了. if you say that you will never live down something bad or embarrassing that you have done, you mean people will not forget it. Three million people saw the singer fall off the edge of the stage. He'll never live it down. I'll never live down the fact that I spilt champagne down my boss's trousers. live something down to do well so that others forget something bad you said or did. to overcome the shame or embarrassment of something. You'll live it down someday. Wilbur will never be able to live down what happened at the party last night. Ken is still trying to live down his comment that most of what's on the Web now is crap. After the way she behaved at the office party, I don't think she'll ever be able to live it down.)." 5. She beeped her horn to alert him and he turned violent, punching and kicking her dark-green Commodore VT and swearing at the stunned woman. He then casually walked into 漫不经心的, 完全不当一回事的, 像什么事也没有发生过似的 ( casual I. [only before noun] doing something sometimes, but not often or regularly. casual filmgoers. Even casual readers of the business pages will be aware of Greenspan's influence. II. [only before noun] not involving strong feelings or emotions. casual friendships. He described himself as a casual acquaintance of the local MP. casual sex (=sex between people who do not know each other well): He was only looking for casual sex. III. working in temporary jobs. a casual labourer. The workforce is mainly unskilled and casual. casual employment. IV. [only before noun] happening without being planned or thought about. a casual meeting/remark. The disease cannot be spread by casual contact. V. relaxed and informal. The bar has a casual low-key atmosphere. The interview took place around the kitchen table and was very casual. a. seeming relaxed and not worried about anything. Paul tried to sound casual but I could tell something was worrying him. b. used when you are criticizing someone for being too relaxed or not careful enough about what they do or say. The report notes the firm's casual attitude 漫不经心的, 不当一回事的 towards safety procedures.) the centre complex when other shoppers yelled abuse at him. Michelle, who did not want her surname printed, was frozen with fear吓呆了 but left her car running on the road while she followed him inside in a bid to try to take his picture. "I was badly shaken up and wasn't thinking(shake someone up to shock or upset someone. The sight of the injured man shook me up. Your rude remark really shook up Tom.)," said Michelle from Hampton Park. "I just saw him walking off and I thought, 'He's going to get away with this', so I followed him." Michelle tried to take a photo on her phone inside the shopping centre but the man saw her. He grabbed the phone and threw it, called her names then punched her in the mouth, causing her to fall. "He then walked off as though nothing had happened," she said. The attacks have been captured on CCTV and there are witnesses to the February 9 ordeal.
Man poses as brother, has friend taken off life support: A Florida man has been taken off life support at the request of his "stepbrother" – only for it to later emerge that the man wasn't a relative but only an acquaintance. On May 30, 2011, Roger MacKinnon, a lonely Navy veteran whose wife had died seven years earlier began having chest pains and asked his "friend" and "drinking buddy酒友, 酒伴" Richard Leclair to take him to hospital. During an exploratory procedure( Exploratory surgery is a diagnostic method used by doctors when trying to find a diagnosis for an ailment. It can be performed in both humans and animals, but it is far more common in animals. It is used most commonly to diagnose or locate cancer in humans, but it can be used for other ailments as well.), MacKinnon's heart stopped. For the next three days, he lapsed into a coma( lapse into something to weaken or slip into something, especially a coma. The survivor of the crash lapsed into a coma. Aunt Mary lapsed into unconsciousness and died. ) before remaining completely comatose(comatose (ˈkəuməˌtəus; -ˌtəuz) I. Of, relating to, or affected with coma; unconscious. II. Marked by lethargy; torpid.) for the next three. That was when Leclair sprang into action(spring into action Fig. to suddenly begin moving or doing something. As soon as the boss came in the door, everyone sprang into action. Every morning, I jump out of bed and spring into action.). Along with his wife, Leclair met with MacKinnon's doctor and illegally authorised 授权 the hospital to turn off his life support. Two days later, MacKinnon was dead. Shortly after, Leclair cleared out MacKinnon's house and stole $118,000 from his bank account. MacKinnon's neighbour said he wasn't alarmed when the "drinking buddy" came around to claim some belongings: "He said he was Roger's brother, and Roger wanted him to have that stuff." The lawyer for MacKinnon's family, Phil Partridge, said the hospital never once asked Leclair for proof of his relationship. "Mr Leclair knew that Roger had a son and a daughter. He had a real brother," said Partridge. "Leclair told the hospital he had no other living relatives." Leclair has pleaded no contest( Nolo contendere is a legal term that comes from the Latin for "I do not wish to contend." It is also referred to as a plea of no contest. In criminal trials in certain U.S. jurisdictions, it is a plea where the defendant neither admits nor disputes a charge, serving as an alternative to a pleading of guilty or not guilty. A no-contest plea, while not technically a guilty plea, has the same immediate effect as a guilty plea, and is often offered as a part of a plea bargain. In many jurisdictions a plea of nolo contendere is not a right, and carries various restrictions on its use.) to trespassing and grand theft, and is currently on probation.
Qantas in hot water: The cash-strapped national carrier has announced first-half losses of $252 million. It also says it will cut capital expenditure by $1 billion over the next two financial years and is planning big changes to its fleet and network. Chief Executive Officer Alan Joyce said the result was unacceptable and comprehensive action would be taken in response作为回应. It will also axe underperforming 表现不佳的 routes including its Perth to Singapore service, while timing and aircraft changes will be made to other routes. A wage freeze for Qantas executive put in place in December will continue and be extended to all of the group's employees. Mr Joyce said the airline continued to see major opportunities for its subsidiary Jetstar in Asia, despite challenging conditions and calls for it to exit the market. Mr Joyce again hit out at rival Virgin( Hit out at 抨击 Respond angrily to criticism. to criticize something or someone strongly: The Medical Association yesterday hit out at government cuts in healthcare services. The government HIT OUT AT the media for their negativity.), which counts three foreign airlines - Etihad, Singapore Airlines and Air New Zealand among its owners. "The Australian domestic market has been distorted by current Australian aviation policy, which allows Virgin Australia to be majority-owned by three foreign government-backed airlines yet retain access to Australian bilateral flying rights," he said. "Late last year, these three foreign-airline shareholders invested more than $300 million in Virgin Australia.... that capital injection has supported continued domestic capacity growth by Virgin Australia despite its growing losses." Qantas said it had a total liquidity of $3 billion, including $2.4 billion in cash reserves现金储备.
Jet-Etihad deal: Bilateral flying rights between India-UAE will hurt industry, other airlines: Differences have cropped up分歧出现 between airline companies and various arms of the government on the issue of quadrupling ( (ˈkwodrupəl; kwoˈdru:pəl) adj. Being four times as long, as big or as many of something. He's quite an athlete and can do quadruple jumps with ease. v. I. (transitive) To multiply by four. Quadrupling four gives sixteen. II. (intransitive) To increase by a factor of four. Our profits quadrupled when we made the improvements. ) air capacity between India and Abu Dhabi over fears that the move will cripple 重创, 致残 the domestic aviation industry. In the backdrop of ( backdrop I. everything that you can see behind the main thing you are looking at. The lake and mountains provided a dazzling backdrop for the ceremony. a. 幕布. theatre a painted cloth hanging at the back of the stage in a theatre. II.背景. the situation or place in which something happens. Her new novel has 19th-century China as its backdrop. Negotiations were carried out against a backdrop of continued fighting.) an impending deal between Jet Airways and Gulf carrier Etihad, key ministries - notably finance - are opposed to the civil aviation ministry's proposal to increase bilateral flying rights between India and Abu Dhabi to 53,000 seats per week from 13,300 per week now. According to government sources, at a meeting of an inter-ministerial group (IMG) on Thursday, the finance ministry opposed increasing flying rights between India and Abu Dhabi, arguing it would take away Indian air traffic, not only harming airports but also airlines, especially national carrier Air India. "The Department of Economic Affairs said at the IMG meeting that on the one hand the government was pumping 注资(inject) 30,000 crore into Air India to bail it out, on the other hand how could it allow someone else to come in and take away its traffic," a government source said. "The ministry also pointed out that increasing bilateral rights between India and Abu Dhabi will hamper 挫伤 plans to make Delhi a world-class hub on the lines of ( along/on the lines of something also along those lines 等同于, 类似于 similar in type. similar or in keeping with. We told the architect we want a design along the lines of his own house but smaller, or Jane asked the caterer for a menu on the lines of the Morgans' wedding reception. This idiom uses line in the sense of "a direction or procedure," a usage dating from the early 1600s. I can't remember exactly what words he used but it was something along those lines. I was thinking of doing a dinner party along the lines of that meal I cooked for Annie and Dave. ) Singapore's Changi and Dubai airports," the official added. Airport operator GMR, which has built the new terminal (T3) at the Delhi airport at a cost of 12,800 crore, echoed this view, arguing that increasing bilateral rights between New Delhi and Abu Dhabi will have an "adverse impact" on the growth of Indian airports. "AAI as well as private airport operators have invested heavily in the modernisation of India's gateway airports, which are by now well equipped to handle transfer traffic on a large scale. The development of a hub at closer proximity在左近, 近在咫尺 would adversely impact further growth of these gateways as hubs," a GMR spokesperson said in a written statement. But the ministries of external affairs and commerce & industry supported the proposal, fearing that a lot of investments lined up from Abu Dhabi could be withheld if bilaterals are not granted to the UAE airline, the source said. The department of economic affairs fears once Etihad buys into Jet Airways, it will cannibalise 蚕食 the traffic share of Indian airlines by flying passengers to various parts of the world through its hub airport in Abu Dhabi, following the same strategy as Dubai-based Emirates. In aviation circles, Emirates has been dubbed as India's de facto national airline, by virtue of the fact that the Middle-Eastern carrier has a 13% share of the outbound traffic from India. Gulf-based airlines such as Emirates, Etihad and Qatar, which are gateway carriers, dominate air routes between India and the Middle-East to the extent that 40% of total West-bound Indian traffic is routed through the Gulf. The meeting took place just days before representatives of the civil aviation ministry are headed to Abu Dhabi for renegotiation of traffic rights. ET reported on Tuesday that Naresh Goyal-owned Jet Airways has lobbied hard in favour of the Abu Dhabi government's demand to increase the number of seats between the two countries while the proposal was being opposed by domestic airlines and private airports. But echoing the views of most of the airline industry, the promoter of one of the leading carriers told ET that by giving away bilaterals, one allows Etihad to fight out with ( fight something out to settle something by fighting. Do we have to fight this out? Can't we use reason? I prefer to fight out this matter once and for all.) Dubai-based carrier Emirates on Indian turf. "If one wants to increase connectivity, give rights to UK, US carriers. Why route traffic through the Gulf? It is a lop-sided move and amounts to demolishing the franchise of our airports," the airline promoter said. Air India, IndiGo and SpiceJet are not keen to operate to Abu Dhabi as they don't see much traffic potential there. GMR argues that the policy allowing foreign carriers to buy 49% stake in Indian airlines needs to be questioned if the investment is based on a negotiating strategy centering on more traffic rights being awarded.
