时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

   Prime Minister John Key and his wife flew to Antarctica last night (Friday) for a three-day trip. The plan was for a four-day trip, leaving on Thursday evening but the weather in Antarctica was a problem.


  So Thursday evening, John Key and his wife were dining at a restaurant in Christchurch when he fainted. He stood up, then fell. He was taken to hospital but doctors decided 1 that there was nothing wrong with his health. Perhaps he was suffering from jet lag as he had only just returned from an overseas trip or perhaps it was exhaustion 2. The job of Prime Minister is an exhausting one.
  Today he hoped to fly to the South Pole but the flight was cancelled because of snow so instead he visited Captain Scott’s 1901 hut. He will host a dinner for US guests tonight. New Zealand and the US do a lot of scientific work together in the Antarctic. The US base at McMurdo Sound is only 5km from the New Zealand Scott Base.
  New Zealand scientists in the Antarctic hope that John Key will realise the importance of their research and make sure the government provides funding for this research in the future.
  Vocabulary
  ?fainted – collapsed 3 for a short time
  ?jet lag –long aeroplane trips from countries which have a different time zone can cause tiredness or jet lag
  ?exhaustion (n), exhausting /exhausted 4 (adj) – extreme tiredness; it is a very, very tiring job / he was exhausted (tired)
  ?fly (v), flight (n)
  ?research – scientific studies
  ?funding – money
  Idiom
  ‘suffering from jet lag’
  This is a useful idiom e.g. suffering from a cold / a headache / the flu / exhaustion
  Notes
  ?the Antarctic (with definite article) or Antarctica (no article); the US (article) or USA (no article)
  ?‘the New Zealand Scott Base’ – here the definite article refers to the base not the name of the base
  ?pronunciation of ‘the’ before a vowel 5 – ‘e’ becomes I: – however, before ‘u’ the usual pronunciation is possible
  ?‘a three-day trip’ – ‘three-day’ is an adjective and does not have a plural 6 ending e.g. a two-year old child

adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
n.耗尽枯竭,疲惫,筋疲力尽,竭尽,详尽无遗的论述
  • She slept the sleep of exhaustion.她因疲劳而酣睡。
  • His exhaustion was obvious when he fell asleep standing.他站着睡着了,显然是太累了。
adj.倒塌的
  • Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
  • The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。
adj.极其疲惫的,精疲力尽的
  • It was a long haul home and we arrived exhausted.搬运回家的这段路程特别长,到家时我们已筋疲力尽。
  • Jenny was exhausted by the hustle of city life.珍妮被城市生活的忙乱弄得筋疲力尽。
n.元音;元音字母
  • A long vowel is a long sound as in the word"shoe ".长元音即如“shoe” 一词中的长音。
  • The vowel in words like 'my' and 'thigh' is not very difficult.单词my和thigh中的元音并不难发。
n.复数;复数形式;adj.复数的
  • Most plural nouns in English end in's '.英语的复数名词多以s结尾。
  • Here you should use plural pronoun.这里你应该用复数代词。
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African lynx
air-vent needle
ample room
ansi standards
arctic mire
Ashcroft sodium process
autolithify
automatic exposure control device
autosynch
ballistic mortar
Binucleata
bridge cut off relay
bza
Caltagirone, Fiume
car vibration damper
cascalote
casting votes
ceress
character transliteration
close button
coast dredging
cogil
cold open
collaboration software
combination of automata
cooling theory
cosh pocket
cross purchase agreement
Damvillers
dendrobium affine steud.
diagonal conducting wall (dcw)generator
digital recorder signal generator
digitalanalogy
direction ratio
dop injection
DTGS detector
enruby
especfico
exception vector
family poeciliidaes
finger rafting
Georgiyevo
glossary of marine engineering
grammographus submaculatus
green light relay
greencard
haul cost
Helm aweather
hydrostatic equilibrium
impersonalize
incremental computer
Krukenberg spindle pigmentation
ligamentopexis
low orbit
luder's band
manned return vehicle reentry
mediastinal cellulitis
Mirsky-Pollister method
mote knife
mundicative
non contact type
occasionates
output phase shift
phonism
portfolio parameters
prefoliation
program structure in fund accounting
promotion systems
refreshment trolley service
RF ammeter
rheomode
Rimbo
round-robin comparison
rowest
ruinest
Santana do Ipanema
satellite mobile channel
sealing voltage
self driven ingot buggy
self-magnetic flux
self-stabilizing steering
shape recognition
ski suit
steam blast device
stoppage of publication
subland drill
sun-bronzed
sweep
syncolpate grain
take the fangs of
to-tight
transmitter ready
tremulousness
tricennal
TubeSat
twin-unit pack
underway bottom sampler
v'lu
warties
wsd
XPF
youth crusades