The plane was unexpectedly delayed.

飞机意外地延误了。

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The most likely explanation is that his plane was delayed.

最可能的解释是他的飞机晚点了。

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She drew on the importance of embedding this collaborative approach in society when she was at the airport recently, and her plane was delayed for the third time.

她强调了在一个社会里人们协同合作的重要性，当她最近有一次在机场时，她的飞机第三次延迟了。

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"They know why the plane is delayed, but they won't tell you anything because they want to keep you from migrating to another airline, " she says.

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Analysts have also warned that Boeing's woes could deepen if airlines who have the Dreamliner on order ask for deliveries of the plane to be delayed.

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Taylor Aldredge, a marketing representative for a tech company, sat in the terminal or on a parked plane at Logan Airport in Boston for more than five hours on Wednesday, awaiting his delayed flight to New York, he said.

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