时间:2018-12-06 作者:英语课 分类:吉姆老爷.Lord.Jim


英语课

Helen Clark (born in 1950) is the 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand. She was in office between 1999 and 2008 and won three consecutive 1 national elections. She is the second longest serving prime minister in NZ’s history. In 2008, she won the UN Environment Programme Champions of the Earth award for her plan to make NZ the world’s first carbon zero nation.


Clark grew up in a farming family and she developed a great love for the land. As a teenager, she became politically active. She protested against the Vietnam War and foreign military bases in New Zealand. She graduated from university with a Master’s degree in politics in 1974. Her research was based on politics in the countryside.


Clark won her first election in 1981. She rose up through the ranks and served in different posts as Minister of Housing, Conservation, Health, and finally as Deputy Prime Minister. She has significantly reformed her country’s welfare system. She introduced many popular measures, including raising the minimum wage six times and abolishing interest on student loans.


In 2008, Clark signed a landmark 2 agreement that handed back land to the indigenous 3 Maori population. She was a fierce opponent of the invasion of Iraq and criticized American actions. She has forged strong relations with China, whose president calls her an “old friend”. She believes that “it’s inevitable 4 that NZ will become a republic” and “reflect the reality that NZ is a…21st century nation”.



1 consecutive
adj.连续的,联贯的,始终一贯的
  • It has rained for four consecutive days.已连续下了四天雨。
  • The policy of our Party is consecutive.我党的政策始终如一。
2 landmark
n.陆标,划时代的事,地界标
  • The Russian Revolution represents a landmark in world history.俄国革命是世界历史上的一个里程碑。
  • The tower was once a landmark for ships.这座塔曾是船只的陆标。
3 indigenous
adj.土产的,土生土长的,本地的
  • Each country has its own indigenous cultural tradition.每个国家都有自己本土的文化传统。
  • Indians were the indigenous inhabitants of America.印第安人是美洲的土著居民。
4 inevitable
adj.不可避免的,必然发生的
  • Mary was wearing her inevitable large hat.玛丽戴着她总是戴的那顶大帽子。
  • The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy.战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。
学英语单词
amorphous solar cell
amplitude modulation measurement
appendectomies
Bad Abbach
binn
bistable
bladder neurogenic dysfunction
boerhavia glabrata
bornetella sphaerica
brown cloth
Caifuche
camptastic
carbothioamides
comparability argument
coolant recirculation line
corrected drawbar horsepower
course length
coxal process
craspedote
cristobal colons
cryogeneses
current sector number
dark state history effect
deranged drainage
deviant and bequeath
devil-may-care
discretionary personal income
disforest
disterrite
dna hybridization indicator
dodginess
drop backs
dwarf shrub
Ensete lasiocarpum
entry book
Epipactis helleborine
ethylidene acetone
ethylisosulfocyanide
external draft scale
fasciorrhaphy
feable estrus
frozen convenience food
functions of drilling fluids
fundamental absorption
fused flux
good-weathers
heat recovery unit
Herbertaceae
heyte
hysteric
in the true sense
intraxylary phloem
iso-anisosyndetic alloploid
Japanese Agricultural Standards
keep something under your hat
Lanlin
lugeons
Midshot-wheel
mobile spasm
net rainfall
Nicotiana tabacum L.
non-classified material
nonsimutaneous transmission
o.c.o.
one step camera
one-point wave meter
ophidion
optimal partial-match retrieval algorithm design
oxacillinases
parameterized application package
personal information source
personnel dose meter
pick-off gear
pinus densata mast.
polymatroid
post-Chernobyl
primary pilot valve
prize broker
receiving vouchers
retail method of inventory
ring electrode
row iteration
scedastic line
shank angle
sliding gear mechanism
Somanda
source program format
spadelike
steel taper ring
subjacent mass
Surf City
tidal current table
trachoma bodies
transgressive intrusion
triangular reflector
unassignable primary input
united parcel service
weak base anion-exchange resin
Yalvigi
yoi (n. australia)
zero-value word
zincochromites