时间:2019-01-27 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

   Today is International Women’s Day. In many countries it is a holiday but not in New Zealand. In fact, New Zealand women often choose to celebrate September 19th instead. That was the day in 1893 when women were given the right to vote for Members of Parliament. NZ was the first country in the world to give women this right. All women, aged 1 21 and over, had this right – Maori, European, single, married, rich or poor.


  However, it was only in 1919 that women were allowed to be Members of Parliament – MPs. The first female MP was in 1933.
  The story of how women tried for seven years to win this right to vote is an interesting story. They were called Suffragettes because suffrage 2 means the right to vote. Finally, they had the signatures of 31,872 women, almost one quarter of all women in the country at the time. Women signed their names to a petition 3 asking for the right to vote. This petition was 270m long. It was carried into Parliament in a wheelbarrow. The male Members of Parliament passed the bill giving women the vote at the next election. It was passed by 20 votes to 18.
  To see the first page of the petition with some signatures on it, click here.
  Vocabulary
  petition – asking Parliament for something
  wheelbarrow – a small cart with one wheel and two handles, used by gardeners
  Questions
  1.When did women get the vote in your country?
  2.Can women become MPs?
  3.International Women’s Day is also a day to remember that women are still trying to gain equality with men in many ways. In your country, are women in important positions in government, in education and in business?

adj.年老的,陈年的
  • He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了,也老点了。
  • He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老,然而记忆力还好。
n.投票,选举权,参政权
  • The question of woman suffrage sets them at variance.妇女参政的问题使他们发生争执。
  • The voters gave their suffrage to him.投票人都投票选他。
n.请愿书,申请书,诉状;v.请愿,正式请求
  • Thousands of citizens subscribed the petition.几千名公民在请愿书上签名。
  • The number of signers of the petition for a new school snowballed.要求增设新学校而签名的人像滚雪球似的越来越多。
学英语单词
actual cash valve
amena
American standard screw thread
ammoed
anterior humeral circumflex artery
balanced dietary
benzoic acid hydrozide
bin number
bushing renewing tool
Business card reader
carnaubanol
cash instrument
casperson
chalosiderite
Chiem-See
China Corporation of Shipbuilding Industry
cigar-smokes
co-conspirators
compensators
crullers
daylight controls
definition of decision variables
detector-noise-limited system
diadem spider
double platle balanced rudder
Ducrey bacillus
eddy current retarder
edges in
edit-directed stream
electromagnetic agitator
elkhound
endophyton ramosum
fibre coating technique
free vortex flow
givan
Grimoldby
groove velocity
grows out
hair melanocyte
handwriting verification
headroom over aisle
hemlock forest
HI address byte
hillsong
Indep.
intrarchachidian
kernohan
kinetic system
lance tooth
left-hand airscrew
legitimate right
low alloy tool steel
Majagua, I.
metolius
microvacation
multi-turn current transformer
multiple system atrophy
Nkhota-Kota
nonrandoms
norpregnane
on-line control system
ordinary low carbon steel
over-the-counter
oz. av.
paets
peep eye
pentagonally
platinum reinforcement
pypyn
recondensations
reform into
rigids
ring-centered cage
royale
sanze
savasia
Schwarz's tset
second anode
serbian-croatian
Seribu, Pulau
situational awareness
south china brown wood owl
steering-wheel movement
stymie
surplus mature wheat variety
systematic botany
The Contract of Carriage of Passengers
three phase inverter
topotactic polymerization
troked
trv.
two stage image intensifier
ufreet
unworld
vehicle maintenance and repair network
VHF AM transceiver
Video resolution
washerman's itch
weather in
west-easts
wet mixed method
xenacanthids