时间:2019-01-27 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

   Margaret Mahy, the famous writer of books for children and teenagers, died yesterday in Christchurch at the age of 76.


  Her first stories appeared in the School Journals in the 1960s. Then overseas publishers became interested in her writing. The first book which sold around the world was A Lion in the Meadow 1, which was written in 1969. The New Zealand word for meadow is paddock but other countries did not use this word. Since then, she has written more than 200 books of stories and poems. Some of her books have been translated into 15 languages. She won many awards including the top award for a children’s writer – the Hans Christian 2 Anderson award. She twice won the Carnegie Medal for best children’s writer. She was awarded the Order of New Zealand in 1993.
  Today MPs in Parliament talked about her contribution to children’s writing in New Zealand and the world. The Prime Minister said that when he visited the UK recently he gave a Margaret Mahy book to the British Prime Minister for his children.
  She had a wonderful imagination and still had ideas for more stories right until her death. She also had a skill for musical language – many of her books and poems are enjoyable to read aloud. She enjoyed reading her books to children too. She wore her rainbow coloured wig 3 whenever she visited schools to read to children.
  Vocabulary
  paddock – field of grass
  awards – prizes and medals; to award (verb) – to give a prize or medal

n.草地,牧草地
  • The children ran free across the meadow.孩子们在草地里自由地奔跑。
  • The meadow is peopled with wild flowers.草地长满了野花。
adj.基督教徒的;n.基督教徒
  • They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
  • His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。
n.假发
  • The actress wore a black wig over her blond hair.那个女演员戴一顶黑色假发罩住自己的金黄色头发。
  • He disguised himself with a wig and false beard.他用假发和假胡须来乔装。
学英语单词
acculturational
Ahok
air servicer
air tube connector
allylisulfocarbamide
Alyssum lenense
annealing kiln
anti-detonant
arggh
bainitic
bank eligible bonds
birdsat
body persecution
butter knife
chin implant
cotton ball cloud
crankcase mayonnaise
crime of affray
crow pram
current collecting equipment with liquid metal
dilettanteish
Distoma hepaticum
DJC
drawing-in machine
elingued
epidihydrocholesterin
even zonal harmonics
exclusive-NOR gate
Fenmetrazin
fetichises
flowind
galula
gavots
glyco-nucleoprotein
group technology code
head-emptier
heat sensimeter
hyperbolic variational inequation
hypersensitive angiitis
impact matrix
Inner Manchuria
inscription on a tablet
interactive placement
Irurita
keesee
Kraynovka
lateral distal mandibular
layettes
layzer
ligmentum popliteum arcuatum
limits of audition
loflucarban
M.Ap.L.
metzincins
minimum-size
Nam Ha
nominal pressure rating
one-block
package management system
people's
photo typography
platinum resistance thermometry
Platt.
plot a distance
plumb perpendicular
predations
premature eruption of tooth
prison gangs
psychosociology
puts together
rectalox glaberi
respiratory environment
restored nonevent
Roulans
Samaritan Pentateuch
shaping amplifier
shipments sent
sill splicing
simple analytic function
somniferum
sound source room
spider-web antenna
spot radiation source
sunshine pill
Swainsona salsula
Syncalathium disciforme
tapman
tea-dancer
telepathising
tensor geometry
thromboresistant
to bake
toll communication network
tracer compound
travelblogs
ultrapure material
underinflated
use exertions
vaginal discharges
Veterans Affairs
vittore carpaccio
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