万花筒 2013-07-09&07-11 韩亚航空总裁就客机事故向受害者及家属致歉

 The apology by the boss of South Korea airline Asiana to the parents of the two Chinese students killed in the San Francisco plane crash got a hostile response. 

Yoon Young-doo met them at Incheon Airport as they traveled from Shanghai to the US. He offered an apology again at a later news conference. 

"I will make a sincere apology and visit the hospitals where our passengers are being treated. I will be there and show repentance¹ on behalf of Asiana Airlines." 

South Korea's President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday offered her condolences to the families of the victims and promised inquiry². 

"The cause of this accident should be clarified in detail and I want everyone to do their best to ensure that there will be no more safety problems in the future."

More than 180 other people were injured when the Boing 777 crashed as it came in to land on Saturday. The last person to leave the wreckage³ was Asiana flight attendant Lee Yoon-Hye, hailed a heroin⁴ for helping⁵ passengers to escape. 

"My brain was very clear and I planned what I had to do immediately. Actually I wasn't thinking but acting⁶. As soon as I heard emergency escape, I started the evacuation. When the fire started, I was just thinking how to put it out, not that it is too dangerous or what I'm going to do." 

US investigators⁷ say the plane was flying dangerously slowly and a stall warning  had sounded seconds before the crash. The four pilots on board had been questioned about their actions.

1 repentance   

n.懊悔

参考例句：

• He shows no repentance for what he has done.他对他的所作所为一点也不懊悔。
• Christ is inviting sinners to repentance.基督正在敦请有罪的人悔悟。

2 inquiry   

n.打听，询问，调查，查问

参考例句：

• Many parents have been pressing for an inquiry into the problem.许多家长迫切要求调查这个问题。
• The field of inquiry has narrowed down to five persons.调查的范围已经缩小到只剩5个人了。

3 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。

4 heroin   

n.海洛因

参考例句：

• Customs have made their biggest ever seizure of heroin.海关查获了有史以来最大的一批海洛因。
• Heroin has been smuggled out by sea.海洛因已从海上偷运出境。

5 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

6 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

7 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》