白宮：馬航失聯客機搜索將擴大至印度洋

A new search area for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 may be opened in the Indian Ocean, the White House said, significantly broadening the potential location of the plane, which disappeared nearly a week ago with 239 people on board.
白宮稱印度洋可能會成爲馬航MH370的新搜索區域，此舉將大大拓寬尋找這架失聯客機的地點範圍。馬航370航班和機上的239人已經消失將近一週。

Expanding the search area to the Indian Ocean would be consistent with the theory that the Boeing 777 may have detoured to the west about an hour after take-off from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur en route to Beijing.
將搜索區域擴展到印度洋，證明這架從馬來西亞首都吉隆坡飛往北京的波音777飛機可能在起飛一個小時後向西繞道而行。

"It's my understanding that based on some new information that's not necessarily conclusive - but new information - an additional search area may be opened in the Indian Ocean," White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters in Washington.
美國白宮發言人傑伊·卡尼在華盛頓對記者說：“根據一些‘並非是定論’的最新信息，印度洋可能會出現一塊新的搜索區域。”

Carney did not specify the nature of the new information and Malaysian officials were not immediately available to comment.
卡尼並沒有指明這個最新信息的實質性，馬來西亞的官員也暫時未做出評論。

The disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines plane is one of the most baffling mysteries in the history of modern aviation. There has been no trace of the plane nor any sign of wreckage despite a search by the navies and military aircraft of more than a dozen countries across Southeast Asia.
這架馬來西亞航班客機的失蹤是現代航空史上最令人不解的神祕事件之一。儘管東南亞十幾個國家已經派出了海軍和軍用飛機進行搜救，目前仍未發現飛機的蹤跡，就連一點殘骸的影子也沒有。

Satellites picked up faint electronic pulses from the aircraft after it went missing on Saturday, but the signals gave no information about where the jet was heading and little else about its fate, two sources close to the investigation said on Thursday.
週四，據兩處消息靈通人士報道稱，通訊衛星接收到馬航MH370在週六失蹤之後發出的微弱信號，但信號並未表明迷航的客機飛往哪裏，也無法預測這架客機的命運。