VOA标准英语2014--航空旅客紧急情况培训

 

Air Travelers Train for Emergency Situations 航空旅客紧急情况培训

Advanced aircraft technology and stricter security make flying one of the safest ways to travel today. But, for people who still feel nervous when they board a plane, British Airways¹ offers a class about flight safety where they can learn exactly what to do in case of emergency.

Since it began in 2004 as a workshop for oil company employees who frequently traveled to remote locations, some 15,000 people have been trained here for emergency situations. Most of them are sent by their employers, but the class near London's Heathrow Airport is open to anyone willing to pay $265 for a half-day hands-on experience.

The workshop is held inside a full motion cabin simulator, the same type used for training the British Airways cabin crew. The sensation of being aboard a plane in flight is authentic².

The course begins like an ordinary flight.

But soon, things go very wrong.

After an emergency landing, passengers are instructed to evacuate³ the plane.

"Get that way! Move! Come this way!"

Safety instructor⁴ Andy Clubb says actually going through the safety procedures increases confidence in flying.

“We start with an emergency and evacuation exercise - it makes people think about it - and what they learn from that is to really tune⁵ into the safety demonstration," said Clubb.

The participants also practice landing on water, removing emergency doors and sliding down the inflated⁶ chutes, and watch demonstrations⁷ of emergency equipment.

“Knowing what could go wrong and more importantly knowing what to do about it, it just gives people a little bit more of a feeling that they're in control," said Clubb.

Sarah Pearson says the experience changed her view about the routine safety demonstrations before the flight.

“After doing this course, it's made me completely look at it in a different way and realize I've got an appreciation⁸ for the safety and what the cabin crew do," said Pearson.

Pearson says next time she boards a plane, she will have a clear plan about what to do in an emergency.

1 AIRWAYS   

航空公司

参考例句：

• The giant jets that increasingly dominate the world's airways. 越来越称雄于世界航线的巨型喷气机。
• At one point the company bought from Nippon Airways a 727 jet. 有一次公司从日本航空公司买了一架727型喷气机。

2 authentic   

a.真的，真正的；可靠的，可信的，有根据的

参考例句：

• This is an authentic news report. We can depend on it. 这是篇可靠的新闻报道, 我们相信它。
• Autumn is also the authentic season of renewal. 秋天才是真正的除旧布新的季节。

3 evacuate   

v.遣送；搬空；抽出；排泄；大(小)便

参考例句：

• We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
• They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。

4 instructor   

n.指导者，教员，教练

参考例句：

• The college jumped him from instructor to full professor.大学突然把他从讲师提升为正教授。
• The skiing instructor was a tall,sunburnt man.滑雪教练是一个高高个子晒得黑黑的男子。

5 tune   

n.调子；和谐，协调；v.调音，调节，调整

参考例句：

• He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子，并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
• The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。

6 inflated   

adj.（价格）飞涨的；（通货）膨胀的；言过其实的；充了气的v.使充气（于轮胎、气球等）( inflate的过去式和过去分词 )；（使）膨胀；（使）通货膨胀；物价上涨

参考例句：

• He has an inflated sense of his own importance. 他自视过高。
• They all seem to take an inflated view of their collective identity. 他们对自己的集体身份似乎都持有一种夸大的看法。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 demonstrations   

证明( demonstration的名词复数 )； 表明； 表达； 游行示威

参考例句：

• Lectures will be interspersed with practical demonstrations. 讲课中将不时插入实际示范。
• The new military government has banned strikes and demonstrations. 新的军人政府禁止罢工和示威活动。

8 appreciation   

n.评价；欣赏；感谢；领会，理解；价格上涨

参考例句：

• I would like to express my appreciation and thanks to you all.我想对你们所有人表达我的感激和谢意。
• I'll be sending them a donation in appreciation of their help.我将送给他们一笔捐款以感谢他们的帮助。