时间:2019-01-27 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

  On Friday, Winston Peters, leader of the New Zealand First Party, announced that he was stepping down from his job as Minister. He said this is a temporary move because the Serious Fraud 1 Office is checking on money that some people said they gave him. The rules of Parliament 2 say that MPs must tell about any gift of more than $500. If Mr Peters received a lot of money and kept it a secret, this is fraud. It could be serious fraud because he is an MP and also the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

The Serious Fraud Office will check the stories about three donations 4 of money. One donation 3 was $100,000 which a New Zealand millionaire, now living overseas, said he paid to Mr Peters. Mr Peters said he did not know about the money. His lawyer, Brian Henry, said that he did not tell Mr Peters about this money. It was used for paying legal bills.

Sir Bob Jones, another New Zealand millionaire, living in Wellington, said he gave Mr Peters a donation of $25,000. A New Zealand First Party official said this money went into the Spencer Trust. This is a company which looks after money for the New Zealand First Party. Mr Peters said he does not know anything about the money in this Trust.

Another rich family, the Vela family, also gave Mr Peters money, maybe as much as $150,000. It’s possible this money also went into the Spencer Trust. There is now a limit on how much a political party can spend on elections 6 so the government is not happy about secret trust money.

John Key, the leader of the National Party, said that he would not let Mr Peters become a Minister if National wins the election 5. He knows that this could mean that National will not be the next government because if they have more MPs after the election, they might still need the New Zealand First Party’s support.

Meanwhile, the New Zealand First Party supports the Labour government. They have promised to vote with the government next week over the Emissions 7 Trading Act which will force companies to pay for the carbon dioxide they send into the air.



n.骗子,欺骗,欺诈,诡计
  • We will introduce legal safeguards against fraud.我们将推行防止欺诈的法律条款。
  • The prosecutor accused the defendant of fraud.原告控告被告犯有欺诈罪。
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.捐赠,捐献,捐助;捐赠物
  • She made a personal donation to the fund.她以个人名义向基金会捐款。
  • Then next big donation of musical instruments came from Germany.第二笔音乐乐器的大型捐助来自德国。
n.捐赠( donation的名词复数 );赠送;捐款;捐赠物
  • The hospital receives a good deal of money in donations. 这家医院收到捐赠来的大笔款项。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The charity is completely reliant on public donations. 这一慈善团体完全依靠公众捐款。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.选举,选择权;当选
  • There is no doubt but that he will win the election.毫无疑问,他将在竞选中获胜。
  • The government will probably fall at the coming election.在即将到来的大选中,该政府很可能要垮台。
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。
排放物( emission的名词复数 ); 散发物(尤指气体)
  • Most scientists accept that climate change is linked to carbon emissions. 大多数科学家都相信气候变化与排放的含碳气体有关。
  • Dangerous emissions radiate from plutonium. 危险的辐射物从钚放散出来。
学英语单词
-pride
aluminum-bronze paint
amadinone
archaeological specimen
autosetter
be incompetent to do sth
beasleys
black stain
BRANDRETH
cardgames
central altitude reservation facility (carf)
check tag
churchdoms
cryptographic node
date-plum persimmon
deck tank vent
dermatomycosis favosa
diagnosticdiphtheria toxin
Diels-Alder adducts
disentomb
double steel comb joint
double torsion test
double-parking
downward-moving agglomerate
emules
Erin
eusceps postfasciatus fairmaire
fibre-tip pen
frontierland
gigamp
give audience
Grouse Creek
growthful
havea
hot flotation circuit
huguely
hypertrophy of thymus
i-praied
illite structure
immunologic manifestation
in-core instrumentation (system)
induction of fuel
ink gun
inspirit sb to action
johnny bull
kasenite pegmatite
Kepler's disk
Lakshmeshwar
light centre length
Lindlar
line drawing brush
long run standard
magnetic resonance spectrometer
Mgr., mgr.
minibulker
misuse-based approach
mixing condensation level (mcl)
modified Mathieu function of the second kind
morning market session
nasopharyngeal airway
natural-draft cooling tower
nonadecane diacid
not-me personification
obstinateness
on all accounts
outer force
petromyzonids
phew
phosphato-molybdic acid
phyllopodous
population map
postparadensa
professional-level
propellant silo
quinine acetate
recovery on the sea
riders' sprain
sand stone
schyffe
self-seal envelope
shadde
snail trail
snapstalks
snot
standgales
surpalite
swiftie
symmetricity
Tihwa
trough plane
true volume measure
tubotympanic
tuffcret
tuzolone
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
unrememberable
unspiritually
uses of goods and services
vaccinatory
vestibule of the ear
wattlebird
wintle