双语阅读英语外刊精讲：频繁相撞为哪般(附音频)

2018-10-10 11:51:32来源：酷学英语

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　　一、原文

　　Ten U.S. Navy sailors were missing and five were injured after the USS John S. McCain guided missile destroyer and an oil tanker more than three times its size collided near Singapore early Monday.

　　American and Singaporean ships and helicopters launched a search-and-rescue mission after the pre-dawn collision at the entrance to one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes.

　　This was the second time in two months that a Navy destroyer based at the 7th Fleet’s home port of Yokosuka, Japan, has been involved in a collision at sea. Seven sailors were killed when the USS Fitzgerald collided with a container ship south of Japan in June.

　　The McCain, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer equipped with Aegis missiles, had been on its way to a routine port visit in Singapore after patrolling in the South China Sea. Shipping data showed the Liberian-flagged merchant vessel ALnic MC was also on its way to Singapore when the ships collided east of the Strait of Malacca at 5:24?a.m. local time, while it was still dark.

双语阅读：英语外刊阅读精讲(附音频)