北京時間7月17日晚間，馬來西亞航空一架從阿姆斯特丹飛往吉隆坡的777客機在烏克蘭靠近俄羅斯邊界墜毀。烏克蘭方面表示，客機遭地對空導彈擊落，機上人員全部遇難。

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.

美國官員對多方媒體證實，周四在烏俄邊界墜毀的馬航客機遭地對空導彈擊落。

此次墜機事件的相關詞匯表達有：

Shoot down a passenger plane 擊落民航客機

surface-to-air missile 地對空導彈

The origin of the missile remained unclear. 導彈發射方尚不清楚。

deny responsibility 否認對此負責

avoid Ukrainian airspace 避開烏克蘭領空

portable air defense missile 便攜式防空導彈

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

Long-range missile 遠程導彈

Ukrainian military and pro-Russian rebels accuse each other of shooting down the plane 烏克蘭軍方和親俄分裂分子互相指責對方擊落客機

air traffic control 空中交通管制

plane wreckage 飛機殘骸

Buk missile launcher布克導彈發射器

passenger nationalities 乘客國籍

passenger manifest 乘客名單

（中國日報網英語點津 Helen）