时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

   The Prime Minister visited the Chatham Islands yesterday and today. This is his first visit. The Chatham Islands are part of New Zealand. They lie 800km east of Christchurch, a two-hour flight or a 4 day voyage by ship from the mainland. Only about 600 people live on the two main islands. There are three small primary schools but high school students have to go to boarding school on the mainland. The main economy on the island is farming and fishing, especially crayfish; however tourism is increasing.


  The people of the Chatham Islands talked to the Prime Minister about their problems. Lack of jobs is a worry because young people leave to find jobs and they don’t return. There are infra-structure worries also and not enough money to re-build the infra-structure. The airport runway is bumpy 1 and modern planes cannot land. The wharf 2 is becoming dangerous because it is rotting. They don’t have enough electricity generation which makes electricity very expensive so householders pay three times as much as other New Zealanders for their power.
  However, there is a possibility of dredging the sea floor for phosphate which can be sold for fertilizer. This could provide jobs.
  Meanwhile the Prime Minister promised $400,000 to build five state houses and said the government could possibly find $20m for a new wharf and $6m for a hydro power station.
  Vocabulary
  mainland – eg. the two main islands of New Zealand
  lack of (n) – not enough; also a verb e.g. it lacks jobs
  crayfish – lobster 3
  infra-structure – basic facilities for a community e.g. transport, water, electricity
  bumpy – not flat e.g. holes in the runway
  rotting – the wood is starting to decay 4 and become weak
  generation – making electricity e.g. In the Chathams they use diesel or wind
  dredge (n)– a machine which can make a harbour deeper or take sand etc from the bottom of the sea; to dredge (v)
  phosphate – phosphorus compounds
  fertilizer – food for plants
  state houses – owned by the government; available for renting

adj.颠簸不平的,崎岖的
  • I think we've a bumpy road ahead of us.我觉得我们将要面临一段困难时期。
  • The wide paved road degenerated into a narrow bumpy track.铺好的宽阔道路渐渐变窄,成了一条崎岖不平的小径。
n.码头,停泊处
  • We fetch up at the wharf exactly on time.我们准时到达码头。
  • We reached the wharf gasping for breath.我们气喘吁吁地抵达了码头。
n.龙虾,龙虾肉
  • The lobster is a shellfish.龙虾是水生贝壳动物。
  • I like lobster but it does not like me.我喜欢吃龙虾,但它不适宜于我的健康。
vi.腐烂,衰落;n.腐烂,腐朽,衰败状态
  • The vegetables have begun to decay.那些蔬菜已开始腐烂。
  • Our powers decay in old age.我们的体力在老年时就衰退。
学英语单词
accentuators
antarctic krill
apply for a post
Arcus plantaris superficialis
aromatic aster
astrochronologist
ATHC
broken driddle
cahill
carrying plane
circumferent
coctostable
commercial arrangement
common practice
coupon department
crane movement
creeping cherophytes
data conversion hardware
device interrupt
diplobacilli
discourse-oriented
domoic acid
down-wind leg
English horse-power
family dicamptodontidaes
finishing judge
fishing licence system
flagtails fish
fusible pattern moulding
geospatial analysis
gourd shaving tool
heading printing
houseboat
hydropedological
impregnated paper
in-company training
inside cabin
intake room
ironbound coast
ISMFS
isotope multi labelling
jamaicensis
Kebayoran-Baru
kiln car pusher
loosening
Lord willing
Lumbi
made it too hot to hold
magpie-goose
martensitic phase transformation
Mazus caducifer
morning hour
MRAs
myrtaceous myrtal
neck ruff
neutral copper acetate
NWG
omnificence
peanut bar
people-management
piggyback plant
pitter-pattered
poikilodermic
pushing under
radial runout of assembled bearing outer ring
re-educations
resistive network
resorts
retention form
rhodogenesis
Rubus lobophyllus
saddle marks
Serbia and Montenegro
sert
set a countenance
shallow bucket
shipping terms
small-areas
spectroradiometric measurement
step regulating switch
stormes
strike below
Sturt pea
super-minicomputer
supersell
synchronous electronic switch
take to sth like a duck to water
temperature spread
theatre of violence
thermonuclear war
Three Way
three-phase induction motor
tinned stainless-steel wire
to emerge
toplab
updraft
van allen magnetic radiation belt
whoopin'
withiest
worm conveyor
Y-type mill
zeroaxial