北京时间7月17日晚间，马来西亚航空一架从阿姆斯特丹飞往吉隆坡的777客机在乌克兰靠近俄罗斯边界坠毁。乌克兰方面表示，客机遭地对空导弹击落，机上人员全部遇难。

Emergencies Ministry members gather at the site of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane crash near the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region, July 17, 2014. [Photo/Agencies]

U.S. officials have confirmed to several media outlets that the Malaysia Airlines passenger plane that crashed near the Ukraine-Russia border Thursday was shot down by a surface-to-air missile.

美国官员对多方媒体证实，周四在乌俄边界坠毁的马航客机遭地对空导弹击落。

此次坠机事件的相关词汇表达有：

Shoot down a passenger plane 击落民航客机

surface-to-air missile 地对空导弹

The origin of the missile remained unclear. 导弹发射方尚不清楚。

deny responsibility 否认对此负责

avoid Ukrainian airspace 避开乌克兰领空

portable air defense missile 便携式防空导弹

All flights should be rerouted 所有航班均需改道

Long-range missile 远程导弹

Ukrainian military and pro-Russian rebels accuse each other of shooting down the plane 乌克兰军方和亲俄分裂分子互相指责对方击落客机

air traffic control 空中交通管制

plane wreckage 飞机残骸

Buk missile launcher布克导弹发射器

passenger nationalities 乘客国籍

passenger manifest 乘客名单

（中国日报网英语点津 Helen）