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ostensibly adv. 表面上 consortium n. 社团，协会 superjumbo n. 巨型喷气式飞机 forge ahead v. 向前迈进 outsource v. 外部买办，采购 tap into v. 接入 renounce v. 放弃 grumbling adj. 嘟嘟囔囔的, 抱怨的; 疼痛的 converge v. 会聚， 会合 难句突破： This week Louis Gallois, the boss of EADS, the Franco-German aerospace consortium that owns Airbus, added substance to warnings a week earlier by the planemakers chief executive, Tom Enders, that the dollars decline was life-threatening for the firm. [主体句式] Louis Gallois added substance to warnings. [结构分析] 这是一个复合句，the boss of EADS是主语的同位语，而the Franco-German aerospace consortium that owns Airbus又是EADS的同位语;最后that引导的定语从句是用来修饰前面的warnings。 [句子译文] 法德航天财团EADS(空中客车属于该财团)老总Louis Galloi本周强调了一周前飞机制造首席执行官Tom Enders的警告，指出美元的贬值对于公司造成了生命威胁。 A few weeks ago Mike Bair, the executive responsible for the 787 programme, who was recently moved sideways after mounting production delays, launched a withering attack on some of the companies recruited to build the plane. | 
