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
a constellation of
adenylate deaminase
aliquotting
Alī Khera
angular operator
anticontracture
antiselves
arbitratorship
ariosoma fasciatum
arteriae cremasterica
Ban Phaen Din Thong
Bankwasser
Bcell differentiation factor
black-out effect
brake squeal
breeding cow
charge offs
class hymenomycetess
compensation for failure of loading
conduction emission measurement
constraining condition
contact title
coup de main
decameters
digital input group voltage
distuned
dog board
dove-colc(u)red
drought
dumb person
dysporomorph
electric-car line
electrophilically
empirical coefficient of reunion ecr.
ferrated albuminic acid
flop-in method
flow control scheme
fonbrune
gawk at
Gila monster
goldhammer
greenidea shimae
haemal canal (or tube)
Hardy, Godfrey Harold
hemilingual atrophy
hermias
high-sensitive detector
hours to stream
hyperbolic error
I.S.A.
intempestive
interpandemic
invertible function
Iqalummiut
Jacobinisms
jetson
Kaufmann iodine value
Koestler's fallacy
Kuwaitiness
laser low temperature fluorescence spectrometry
lateral convergence shift
livered
Menouarar
Mlicrococcus violaceus
myocillin
nonscorable
obtrusions
oginga
on-line service provider
opposite to
organ
orthodoxal
phthalic imidine
picking tongs
powerfilter
pre-sample value
prison staff
progresista
racket case
receipt invoice
register of shareholders
retoolings
Rubus nigrobaccus Bailey
santa fe de bogota
schenke
sigma network
silver stars
smilt
Smirnoff
solar-flare forecast
Sorensen titration
spreading chest
stenophyllas
temporary workman
teraconic acid
terminatio
terminology of mineral
unguentum simplex
wedge out
wheelworks
Yurasovka
zone of weld