时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

   This has been a bad week so far for job losses. Yesterday, KiwiRail said that 158 staff will lose their jobs. Many of these people are engineering staff. Also Solid Energy, which owns coal mines, will close Spring Creek 1 in Greymouth with a loss of 222 staff and another 130 contractors 3 who work at the mine. Another 180 workers at the Huntly coal mine will also lose their jobs. Solid Energy will also cut about 150 administrative 4 jobs. Both Greymouth and Huntly are small towns where it will be almost impossible to find another job. Spring Creek mine has lost $100m since it was set up in 2007. Asia no longer wants so much coal for steel production.


  These job losses are added to earlier ones. Last week the chemical company Nuplex said they will cut 60 jobs in New Zealand and Australia because of the high Kiwi and Australian dollars. The Kiwi dollar now buys 82.7 US cents.
  Also, the aluminium 5 smelter in Southland will cut 100 jobs because there is less demand for aluminium, and the paper mill in the Bay of Plenty will cut 120 jobs because newspapers do not need so much paper these days.
  On the bright side, there will be jobs in the near future with the Christchurch re-build after the earthquake. It is not clear where construction workers will live as there is a shortage of housing in Christchurch at the moment.
  Vocabulary
  contractor 2 – an independent worker who is contracted by the company to do a specific job e.g. do some electrical work
  administrative jobs e.g. office jobs
  steel production – making steel
  aluminium (Br Eng) – aluminum (Am Eng) – mixture of some metals used for beer cans and foil
  smelter – melting metals
  less demand – not so many people want to buy something (opposite: strong demand)
  paper mill – factory which makes paper (a flour mill makes flour from wheat, a timber mill makes timber from wood etc)

n.小溪,小河,小湾
  • He sprang through the creek.他跳过小河。
  • People sunbathe in the nude on the rocks above the creek.人们在露出小溪的岩石上裸体晒日光浴。
n.订约人,承包人,收缩肌
  • The Tokyo contractor was asked to kick $ 6000 back as commission.那个东京的承包商被要求退还6000美元作为佣金。
  • The style of house the contractor builds depends partly on the lay of the land.承包商所建房屋的式样,有几分要看地势而定。
n.(建筑、监造中的)承包人( contractor的名词复数 )
  • We got estimates from three different contractors before accepting the lowest. 我们得到3个承包商的报价后,接受了最低的报价。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Contractors winning construction jobs had to kick back 2 per cent of the contract price to the mafia. 赢得建筑工作的承包商得抽出合同价格的百分之二的回扣给黑手党。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.行政的,管理的
  • The administrative burden must be lifted from local government.必须解除地方政府的行政负担。
  • He regarded all these administrative details as beneath his notice.他认为行政管理上的这些琐事都不值一顾。
n.铝 (=aluminum)
  • Aluminium looks heavy but actually it is very light.铝看起来很重,实际上却很轻。
  • If necessary, we can use aluminium instead of steel.如果必要,我们可用铝代钢。
学英语单词
administrative measures
akoakoa pt.
Ameritards
annular eclipse of sun
ansermetite
antidyskinetic
Antigonus I
apparent moisture sink
arthrous
atlanticus
automatic capping machine
bad apples
basic building block
bassac
baudisserite (magnesite)
beam deflector
bibbery
burr
carbon granule
Chukotskiy Rayon
composite breakwater
conservation price
differential duplex telegraph
discounting error
DT-diaphorase
eltharions
equitable liabilities
eriodictyon californicums
Eutomite
furnace foundation
gen up on
georgius
glass fibre reinforced plastic boat
glucose-phosphate
graphic lubricant
heta
hickories
hymenaeas
initial pressure peak
interdigital oidiomycosis
internal mammary lymph nodes
invertebrae
isotimic surface
johncock
kite reel
land-use analysis
macro-variable
martrone
maynard operation sequence technique (most)
metzler paradox
muhurtas
noddy shot
non-megnetic materials
oncoid
OTcl
out of doors
outspelled
oxy-dehydrogenation catalyst
Palomitas
passenger mentality
patient with
pesticide poisonings
Phascolarctinae
Plasmodiophora
Poulton-le-Fylde
praline nougat
public security organ
rate transparency
ready to run
rein unit of viscosity
republican guards
reversing tidal current
Roman bird
Rondec-TR
Rückeroth
Saint Bruno
sate (semi-automatic test equipment)
scarinesses
self-propelled combine harvester
shared Ethernet adapter
shipping data
slinkest
soiar plexus
stronghandedness
super-lunar
T'osǒng
tee-total
tenosols
umecyanin
unveilers
uprisen
vake
variation diagram(of igneous rocks)
venenous
Vernes
vertebro-arterial
Vesilahti
vipassana
wideflange
wimpiest
wised up
xilokastron (xylokastro)