馬航MH370失聯事件，是縈在每位失聯乘客家屬心頭不可抹去的傷痛。
四年的搜尋過去了，馬航原定的搜尋時間也已於2018/5/29結束，馬航方面的調查得到了什麼結果？真的可以拂去受傷害者們心頭的悲痛嗎？
The four-year hunt for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has ended with the latest, privatelyfunded search coming to a close.
馬來西亞航空公司MH370航班的四年追尋已經結束，最新的
私人資助搜索也即將結束。US-based Ocean Infinity had been using a deep-sea vessel to survey a vast area of the southern Indian Ocean.
總部位於美國的海洋無限公司一直在使用深海船舶來勘察印度洋南部的廣大地區。
But it found nothing and Malaysia's government says it has no plans to begin any new searches.
但它沒有發現任何東西，馬來西亞政府說它沒有計劃開始任何新的搜索。
The plane disappeared on 8 March 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.
2014年3月8日，飛機從吉隆坡飛往北京，機上239人失蹤。
Official search efforts ended last year and there are still fierce debates about what happened to the flight.
官方搜索工作去年結束，關於航班發生了什麼事仍有激烈的爭論。
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privately ['praɪvətli]
adv.私下
例句：
I shall disclose some of his opinions of you, privately expressed to me, unless he relents a little.
除非他變得心平氣和一點，不然，我預備把他私下跟我講對於你的若干意見揭發出來。
vessel ['ves(ə)l]
n.器皿；輪船；脈管；大船
例句：
The heart of a fool is like a broken vessel, and no wisdom at all shall it hold.
愚人的內心，像一個破碎的器皿，任何知識都保存不住。
disappear [dɪsəˈpɪə(r)]
v.消失；失蹤；絕跡；離開
例句：
The moment I caught sight of him, he disappeared.
我剛看見他，他就沒影兒了。
fierce [fɪrs]
adj.兇猛的；兇狠的；兇殘的；狂熱的
例句：
By her fierce expression, she looks as if she is about to tell Giacino to buzz off. Yet she does not speak.
從她激烈的表情中似乎可以看出她在告訴吉亞奎洛叫他滾開，但她現在還不能說話。
"People might think: 'Why are these people still harping on about this, it's been four years'. It's important for people to remember that MH370 is not history," she told the Guardian newspaper.
“人們可能會這樣想：'為什麼這些人仍然對此感到憂心忡忡，這已經過去了四年。’對於人們來說，記住MH370不是歷史是很重要的，”她告訴“衛報”。
What happens next?
接下來會發生什麼？
Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke says a full report into the plane'sdisappearance will be published in the future but has not given a date.
馬來西亞交通部長安東尼洛克表示，關於飛機失蹤 事件的全面報道將在未來發布，但沒有給出日期。
Australia, Malaysia and China have agreed that an official search would resume only if credible evidence emerged on the plane's location.
澳大利亞，馬來西亞和中國已同意，只有在飛機位置出現可信證據時才能恢復正式搜索。
Although the Malaysian government says it will not extend the private search, Anwar Ibrahim, who is widely tipped as next prime minister, told The Australian newspaper there was "further digging" to be done.
儘管馬來西亞政府表示不會擴大私人搜索範圍，但被廣泛宣傳為下任總理的安瓦爾易卜拉欣告訴澳大利亞報紙，“正在進一步挖掘”要完成。
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harp [hɑrp]
n.豎琴；豎琴狀的東西；【天】天琴座；〈美俚〉愛爾蘭人
v.彈豎琴；嘮叨地反覆講 (on upon)
例句：
She is always harping on the family's neglect of her. In fact we go to see her every week.
她總是嘮嘮叨叨說家裡人不關心她，其實我們每星期都去看望她。
disappearance [.dɪsə'pɪrəns]
n.失蹤；消失；不見；消散
例句：
As for the mysterious disappearance of Quasimodo, this is all that we have been able to discover.
至於伽西莫多的神秘失蹤，下面就是我們所能披露的全部情況。
resume [ˈrezuˌmeɪ]
n.簡歷
v.繼續；重返
例句：
Now, however, I'm job hunting and trying to write a resume, and I'm confused about a few things.
但是現在，我正在找工作，想要撰寫一份新簡歷。可其中的一些問題讓我非常困惑。
Why did flight MH370 come down?
為什麼MH370航班墜落？
There is still no answer. Finding the plane, or at least more bits of its wreckage, could prove key but investigators have very limited information about the plane's last hours.
這仍然沒有答案。 尋找飛機，或至少更多的殘骸，是證明的關鍵，但調查人員對飛機最後幾小時的信息非常有限。
Experts still cannot come to a definitive conclusion as to whether MH370 remained under the pilot's command, or crashed out of control into the sea.
關於MH370是否仍處於飛行員的指揮下，或者墜毀在海中失控，專家們仍然無法得出明確的結論。
One widely explored theory is that the plane's pilot deliberately brought it down.
一個被廣泛研究的理論是，這架飛機的飛行員故意把它降下來。
But Australian investigators have rejected this, saying he was unconscious during the final moments.
但澳大利亞調查人員拒絕了這一說法，稱他在最後時刻昏迷不醒。
Technical failure remains another possibility but in the absence of an official explanation conspiracy theories have abounded.
技術失敗仍然是另一種可能性，但在沒有官方解釋的情況下，存在各種各樣的陰謀論。
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wreckage ['rekɪdʒ]
n.（車輛等的）殘骸；（建築物等的）廢墟
例句：
It was the wreckage of one of their cars, an SUV that had been blown in half earlier in the week.
在這周早些時候，一輛SUV被炸成了兩半。
investigator [ɪn'vestɪ.ɡeɪtər]
n.調查者
例句：
Investigators seem to have denied him help in an effort to extract a confession.
調查者似乎為了讓他招供而拒絕提供幫助。
unconscious [ʌn'kɑnʃəs]
adj.無知覺的；昏迷的；不省人事的；無意識的
n.無意識（不察覺的心理活動）
例句：
He felt in the quiet presence of his mother, brother, and sister a force, inarticulate and unconscious.
他母親、弟弟和妹妹不聲不響地站在他面前，使他感覺到一種不可言喻的、不自覺的力量。
absence ['æbsəns]
n.缺席；缺乏；不在；不存在
例句：
But scientists have now found a quasar that's apparently churning out new stars in the absence of a host galaxy.
但是現在科學家們發現，一顆沒有掛靠主星系的類星體顯然在大量地製造出新恆星。
馬航的搜索已經結束，但是結果仍未公佈，我們仍舊希望馬航方面可以為我們提供一個合理的解釋，讓失蹤乘客的家屬可以得到一個可以接受的結果。
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