时间:2019-01-27 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

  It was not a surprise last night to learn that the National Party won the election. The telephone polls 1 had been telling us for a long time that National would get around 45% of the vote and Labour about 34% and that was exactly right. National has 59 seats but needs 62 for a majority. National will form a coalition 2 government with the five members of ACT and United Future’s one MP, Peter Dunne, giving it 65 seats. A coalition is like a partnership 3. ACT and United will be part of the government but in return for their support, they will want at least one Cabinet position, like Minister of Education. However, ACT is a right-wing party and National’s policies are more in the centre. It could be difficult for National to have an ACT minister because ministers are responsible for policy.

The Governor-General in New Zealand, who is the Queen’s representative, appoints the new Prime Minister, and John Key would like this to happen by November 17th. However, special votes do not get counted until November 22nd and a new government does not usually take over until after that date. Special votes include votes from New Zealanders overseas. In this election, the 200,000 special votes will probably not change anything. John Key wants to attend the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation) leaders’ conference in Peru on November 22nd. He says it is very important to talk with other world leaders because of the seriousness of the global financial crisis 4.

Although the election result was not a surprise, on election night, there was one surprise. Helen Clark announced that she will not be the Labour Party leader any more. She won her Mt Albert seat so will be an MP but will let someone else become the leader. The members of the Labour Party will decide this themselves. Michael Cullen, deputy 5 leader, has also announced that he will step down from his job. He will not become the next leader of the Labour Party.

For a long time, people have suggested that if Helen Clark leaves politics, she would easily find a job in some international organisation 6 like the United Nations. She has always been interested in foreign affairs and has travelled widely to attend meetings of world leaders. Another possibility is a job as New Zealand’s ambassador 7 to some country overseas and John Key has already agreed that his government could appoint her to a position like that at some time in the future. It will be interesting to see if she stays in Parliament for the next three years.



民意调查( poll的名词复数 ); 民意调查的结果; 投票选举; 投票数
  • The two candidates are in a dead heat in the polls. 两名候选人在民意测验中势均力敌。
  • Opinion polls indicated a two-thirds majority in favour of ratification of the treaty. 民意调查表明2/3 的多数票赞成批准这个条约。
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。
n.合作关系,伙伴关系
  • The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
  • Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。
n.危机,危急关头,决定性时刻,关键阶段
  • He had proved that he could be relied on in a crisis.他已表明,在紧要关头他是可以信赖的。
  • The topic today centers about the crisis in the Middle East.今天课题的中心是中东危机。
n.代理人,代表,副职;adj.代理的,副的
  • John will act as a deputy for me during my absence.我离开期间,约翰将代理我的职务。
  • She is the deputy headmistress of the school.她是那所学校的代理校长。
n.组织,安排,团体,有机休
  • The method of his organisation work is worth commending.他的组织工作的方法值得称道。
  • His application for membership of the organisation was rejected.他想要加入该组织的申请遭到了拒绝。
n.大使,特使,(派驻国际组织的)代表
  • He took up office as an ambassador for ten years continuously.他连任十年大使。
  • The new ambassador is more mature than his predecessor.新大使比他的前任更成熟一些。
学英语单词
-bedroomed
a good onion
Aconitum carmichaeli
admiralty mts.
advance drawing change notice
androconidium
anglebar
ash emulsion
attack vector
base input characteristics
be strange at
bridge structure
call for trumps
carrier position
change in cost
cicatrica trachoma
Cobalt(lll)oxide
collema flaccidum ach.
combustible waste
cornrows
crest plane
cytopharyngeal armature
DABER
Dioscorea cumingii
diyah
draft-dodgings
dumdum fevers
electrical multiplier
electrical trench
encapsulated electrical apparatus
encyclopaedies
extinction price
falcarindiol
fan-site
fartings
filing area
filksing
four-probe arrangement
Gauss-Kruger projection
generator drive axle
grain boundary segregation
grain concentration measuring method
hot-spot
hysteric hemiplegia
hysteroptosia
idas
inharmonical
internal genitals
iterative phase constant
japanese snowbells
kramers theory
lead lubrication process
lechlades
lepas anserifera
local/local machine
lowrises
mean of probability distribution
micro-kjehldahl's method
Midway Is.
mielichhoferia sinensis dixon
minitractors
myometriums
nircs
noncompleteness
on service
One and Eight
outlet chamber
paterzem
patrimoines
peaking capacity
photomyoclonic
Phrynium tonkinense
plangently
Plumbago auriculata
podopmpholyx
pseudocubic
ratio flow control
remesal
Richard Roes
root-knot eel-worm
rough soybean products
ruficollis
safety classes
safety command
Saint Blaiz's disease
sector-based
sidetable
Spirillum vincenti
steamjacket
test dive
TF-FE
the-rosie
three-colour knob yarn
torsion gage
trifurcating
true product reliability
Viburnum luzonicum
vimala
visicorp
window class
wine press
wingert