时间:2019-01-27 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

  It is not just the American Presidential elections 1 in early November. Four days after the Americans have chosen their new President, we will vote but we cannot choose our leader. We can only vote for one person in our local area, our electorate 2, and for one party. If that party wins the majority of votes, that party becomes the government and their leader becomes our Prime 3 Minister. There are 120 seats in Parliament 4, so one party needs 61 MPs to have a majority.

However, under MMP, usually no party gets 61 seats. Instead, the party with the most seats needs the support of a smaller party so that together they have a majority. This is called a coalition 5 where both parties agree to work together. However, small parties have different policies and they may not be happy in a coalition with National or Labour. This weekend, the Maori Party talked about the problems of a coalition with National. One problem is that National wants to get rid of the seven Maori seats in Parliament. Only Maori can vote in the Maori electorates 6. Maori seats were first established in 1868 to make sure that Maori people were represented in Parliament but today there are 15 other Maori MPs who are not from Maori electorates. National says this means that Maori seats are not necessary any more. The Maori party disagrees.

National will not work with the New Zealand First leader, Winston Peters. The Greens have not yet said whether they will support Labour or National. Up till now, they have supported Labour. The Green Party is the only small party which is likely to get more than 5% of the vote. This would give them more MPs from their Party list. ACT will join a National coalition but if ACT only wins one seat, that will not help National much. The other small parties will probably not have enough MPs either.

Every vote is important. Your vote could make a difference.



n.选举,当选,推举( election的名词复数 )
  • The Republicans got shellacked in the elections. 共和党在选举中一败涂地。
  • He emerged victorious in the elections. 他在竞选中脱颖而出获得胜利。
n.全体选民;选区
  • The government was responsible to the electorate.政府对全体选民负责。
  • He has the backing of almost a quarter of the electorate.他得到了几乎1/4选民的支持。
adj.首要的,主要的;最好的,第一流的
  • The prime minister spoke of the general insecurity in the country.总理谈到了全国普遍存在的不安全。
  • He met with the Prime Minister of Japan for an hour.他和日本首相会见了一个小时。
n.议会,国会
  • She won a seat in Parliament at the election.她在选举中赢得了议会中的席位。
  • The drug was banned by an act of parliament.议会的法案明令禁止该药品。
n.结合体,同盟,结合,联合
  • The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
  • Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。
全体选民( electorate的名词复数 )
  • The assembly's 15 seats have electorates as small as 190. 大会的15个议席只有很少的190选民参加。
  • Restricting hedge funds is something they can sell to their electorates. 限制对冲基金是他们能够向选民兜售的东西。
学英语单词
aberration of gonadogenesis
afterdepolarization
anaphylxes
angle of rifling
argues
artificial abrasives
asteroidean
audio patch bay
band-limited gaussian channel
banyas
basic generated matrix
befast
benefit-risk
bioprospector
Birmasil special alloy
bittenbinder
bond
botryoid sarcoma of bladder
bow cable sheave
broken bird
built in flexibility
buttprop
Cayratia daliensis
collection of bills
come-and-goes
conflict-oriented
controlled tank venting system
Corybas taiwanensis
cucumis sativuss
danish (pastry)
de-Stalinization,destalinization
dino-
direct turst
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
drawing object selected
ductus communis
essential attributes
external lock
fault tolerant multicomputer system
frenosecretory
gelated
genus Ozonium
hambury
Hamilton, Mt.
Hemichorda
Hi-Lo set plug
horseshoe whipsnake
huggings
indiffusibl
indignations
isotopic label
jejunal veins
kochel number
laurentin
Lent term
likebait
limit position of a mechanism
linear equations
loan on real credit
mechanical wave filter
medium-pressure binder spreader
memory loss
mustache cup
non - euclidean geometry
non-aqueous solvent
nonlinear parameter
oralized
owners declaration
oxygen sensor
oxynicotinic acid
painted body
Parietalis
Peganovo
Pel-Ebstein fever
permetritis
photoelectric astrometry
point-to-point radio communication
preparatory study
Processus medislis tuberis calcanei
Puccinia mammillata
reannouncements
redoxclines
restriction order
Samnite
senior-oriented
Senusi
shirlie
signal equipment repair
single-step mode
six-shot
strand count
to music
uncapturable
unfacts
unoxidised
upland goose
VHF tuning mechanism
Vignory
Visscher's lumboiliac incision
web portal manager
word problem of semi-Thue system
wrongnesses