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 smoking gun
abeyances
actual record length
air breathing facultative
air side
airborne infrared high energy laser
aleutric acid
Allium rubens
autolean mixture
below the gangway
bosse
brated
Chain slack!
channelizations
chappatis
Check your Totem
collarbutton
color sensitized emulsion
compliance and collection cost of taxes
compoumd bayberry powder
conclusyon
confirmational
conjugate fracture system
constant-weight feeder
couderc
countir-
crusing squad
cypripedium fasciculatums
decoding information
defective pixel
Deoxyuridine-triphosphatase
enriching
fiber optic scanner
Fire-line
Flor.
funis brachii
gaussian lineshape
gelled confection
genus Ptilonorhynchus
gestas
gross income zone
Gullmarsfjorden
halflights
handsetting wheel driver
harmony and unity
history of vegetation
hits the skids
horizontal bar & parallel bars
Indologist
inherent safety
inter-allieds
internides
Jervis' operation
kunstgeschichte
latch catch
line repeater
line-array sensor
lipromima minuta
ludi
maloperations
median incision of lower abdomen
mistful
Mittel-Europa
Mysorean
n-b-c
natural yoghurt
nature and flavor
news-week
Njala
nonmotor map
oncoma(tumor)
osteoscleroses
persistent waves
photo-montages
plane elastostatic problem
Pozharskiy Rayon
rhesuss
rogarshevsky
safety design basis
set in your ways
single wire remote control
single-carrier theory
smallpox
sonned
summer vacation
The noes have it.
tie rod for pipe
transreal
trapped air-cushion
trestled
Trollius ranunculoides
Turmalina
uniform blade
unreliable protocol
uridinediphosphate
vanessa atalantas
vertibility
voreward
west lake
winged fruit
woodburning
Yeniseians