时间:2019-01-27 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

   The Anglican cathedral in Christchurch was badly damaged in the February 22nd earthquake. Later after-shocks have caused more damage and it is now not a safe building. Today the Bishop 1 announced that the cathedral will be taken down, slowly, to about 2 to 3 metres in height. This is so that someone can remove stained 2 glass windows and other important things inside the building.


  This cathedral was built 130 years ago in The Square in the centre of Christchurch. In 1888, the spire 3 on top of the steeple fell off in an earthquake but it was rebuilt. In recent years, the cathedral was strengthened to make it safer in an earthquake, but maybe it was not strengthened enough. It was a beautiful building, built in stone in a Gothic style. It was like the heart of the city. Although it belonged to the Church of England, the Christchurch City Council 4 helped to pay for the new roof a few years ago and for earthquake strengthening. Christchurch people therefore think that the cathedral belongs to the whole city, to everybody.
  There will be strong protests 5 from people who are angry about losing this beautiful building. They say that it could be saved if we can find the money to save it. Other people say, “Let’s build a new, safe cathedral.” And some people ask, “Do we need a cathedral?”
  Vocabulary
  the Bishop – she is the head of the church in Canterbury
  high (adj) height (noun)
  stained glass windows – coloured glass is used by artists to make pictures in the windows
  steeple – tall tower, with big bells inside it
  spire – like a pointed cone on top of the tower
  strong (adj) strengthen (verb) = make strong
  minor – only a little; opposite is ‘major’
  Church of England – Anglican church

n.主教,(国际象棋)象
  • He was a bishop who was held in reverence by all.他是一位被大家都尊敬的主教。
  • Two years after his death the bishop was canonised.主教逝世两年后被正式封为圣者。
adj.污染的,玷污的
  • My dress was stained. 我的连衣裙弄上了污渍。
  • The doors are then stained and varnished. 这些门还要染色涂清漆。
n.(教堂)尖顶,尖塔,高点
  • The church spire was struck by lightning.教堂的尖顶遭到了雷击。
  • They could just make out the spire of the church in the distance.他们只能辨认出远处教堂的尖塔。
n.理事会,委员会,议事机构
  • The town council passed a law forbidding the distribution of handbills.市议会通过法律,禁止散发传单。
  • The city council has declared for improving the public bus system.市议会宣布同意改进公共汽车系统。
n.[体]抗议;抗议,反对( protest的名词复数 )v.声明( protest的第三人称单数 );坚决地表示;申辩
  • The protests have forced the government to back-pedal on the new tax. 抗议活动已迫使政府撤销新的税目。
  • Plans to build a new mall were deep-sixed after protests from local residents. 修建新室内购物中心的计划由于当地居民反对而搁浅。
学英语单词
a dingdong fight
acric ferralsols
age-crime
allanson
anti-knock
average quantity
bafa golu
be out of action
BSWG
c3 cycle
carrier's insurance
checking them out
chromatomyia perangusta
Chrysopogon zizanioides
coefficient of wear efficiency
commercial drafting
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condensing electroscope
counsel of record
covariance function
cultural phytocoenology
cycloalkenyl group
dtmf
East Tennessee
edge saw
entrepreneurial mentality
Euro-dollar lending
extended target
face-name mnemonic technique
fieldscape
four-probe arrangement
fried macaroni with prawns and eggs
genus Phaethon
graffing
grammatical relations
hot pressing mould
hydraulic ram actuator
hypervisual
indicated thermal efficieney
instantaneous torque
intelligent computer aided design
isochorismate
Isospora felis
JB table ,Jeffreys-Bullen seismological table
katakinetomeric
Kazarinovo
kennedys
kethe
korphe
leaf chain
lung heat
mackayites
mass rapid transit railway
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misculate
muntz metal
mura
NMAC
non-arrivals
non-athlete
not care a hill of beans
nummularias
ober
omnimatic
Parfitian survival
phosphopeptidomimetic
physically isolated network
platinum rhodiumplatinum thermocouple
plunge grinding machine external
portable inertial navigation system
put one's head on the block
quantum of light
quillai
radioimpulse
rapid nova
receptor destroying enzyme
red marked pole
retroflects
rhombic bipyramid
ring-down pulse
ritualia
rupicolous plants
seroproteinaceous
shaken the dust from her shoes
shelterwood
site related extreme events
snsuscslsesasrs-s
St-Jean-du-Gard
strained lattice
structured packing
subdifferential mapping
suspender-belt
talk-ringing key
TDMA
the beast
thick-film printing
to log out
turbeth
twinning gliding
unincombered
vienna convention on the law of treaties
wimp out