时间:2019-01-27 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

  It is not just the American Presidential elections 1 in early November. Four days after the Americans have chosen their new President, we will vote but we cannot choose our leader. We can only vote for one person in our local area, our electorate 2, and for one party. If that party wins the majority of votes, that party becomes the government and their leader becomes our Prime 3 Minister. There are 120 seats in Parliament 4, so one party needs 61 MPs to have a majority.

However, under MMP, usually no party gets 61 seats. Instead, the party with the most seats needs the support of a smaller party so that together they have a majority. This is called a coalition 5 where both parties agree to work together. However, small parties have different policies and they may not be happy in a coalition with National or Labour. This weekend, the Maori Party talked about the problems of a coalition with National. One problem is that National wants to get rid of the seven Maori seats in Parliament. Only Maori can vote in the Maori electorates 6. Maori seats were first established in 1868 to make sure that Maori people were represented in Parliament but today there are 15 other Maori MPs who are not from Maori electorates. National says this means that Maori seats are not necessary any more. The Maori party disagrees.

National will not work with the New Zealand First leader, Winston Peters. The Greens have not yet said whether they will support Labour or National. Up till now, they have supported Labour. The Green Party is the only small party which is likely to get more than 5% of the vote. This would give them more MPs from their Party list. ACT will join a National coalition but if ACT only wins one seat, that will not help National much. The other small parties will probably not have enough MPs either.

Every vote is important. Your vote could make a difference.



n.选举,当选,推举( election的名词复数 )
  • The Republicans got shellacked in the elections. 共和党在选举中一败涂地。
  • He emerged victorious in the elections. 他在竞选中脱颖而出获得胜利。
n.全体选民;选区
  • The government was responsible to the electorate.政府对全体选民负责。
  • He has the backing of almost a quarter of the electorate.他得到了几乎1/4选民的支持。
adj.首要的,主要的;最好的,第一流的
  • The prime minister spoke of the general insecurity in the country.总理谈到了全国普遍存在的不安全。
  • He met with the Prime Minister of Japan for an hour.他和日本首相会见了一个小时。
n.议会,国会
  • She won a seat in Parliament at the election.她在选举中赢得了议会中的席位。
  • The drug was banned by an act of parliament.议会的法案明令禁止该药品。
n.结合体,同盟,结合,联合
  • The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
  • Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。
全体选民( electorate的名词复数 )
  • The assembly's 15 seats have electorates as small as 190. 大会的15个议席只有很少的190选民参加。
  • Restricting hedge funds is something they can sell to their electorates. 限制对冲基金是他们能够向选民兜售的东西。
学英语单词
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Acer metcalfii
after-drying
Almanach de Gotha
ameiva ameiva
anastral mitosis
berdache,berdash
Big Valley
bogwoods
broad-arrow engine
commercial frontage
computer storage hierarchy model
Covenant Code
cryptocarine
darnest
distastefulness
draft apparatus
energetics of ecosystems
external spur gear
fibrocartilago interarticularis
fired heater
formylating agent
fortunacy
garbh
Gettorf
ghutra
Gilbert, Is.
group think
harelipped bat
hose beast
khvansar (khunsar)
label(l)ed atom
lancifolia
laplace's transformation
lattice-type frame
laugh against one's will
leave sth. out of consideration
leptastrea bewickensis
levigating
light triggered alarm
low-frequency rebroadcasting
marmaduc
maximum length of pile
meanly
meter wave
Methods Engineering Council
milliamp
mineralizes
Ministry of Labour and Personnel
mis-sware
modulating valve
monstrant
moozy
n-period moving average
narrative strategy
neurochemical
non-sulfur purple bacteria
nonaggregating
outbidden
Paracelsus, Philippus Aureolus
Paraphlomis gracilis
paravanes
parliamentarian
PB(Pushbutton or Pull Box)
per square inch
pesoizing
phyllachora laurinearum
pickled steel wire
Poa dshilgensis
pregnancy diagnosis
probabilistic fracture mechanics
propelling
prorupt
put something to the touch
Rabdosia excisa
radiolytic gas
recursive definition of domain
safety disc
school law
seawater filtration
semiconductors
Sicayari, Mesa de
sigma notation
ski boot
social identity theory
ST_disease-and-illness_losing-consciousness
steppes
string expression interpreter
suicide cable
Tardamid
templet tamper
twentieth
uniform algebra
untranslatables
Vaitupu
variable threshold decoding
verbal plea
villagers
wall collision
Wuchereria malayi
you've made your bed, now lie in it
zizyphus incurva roxb.