时间:2019-02-04 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

  Today, the Geographic 1 Board decided 2 that the town of Wanganui should be spelt with an “h”: Whanganui. This will make it the same as the river which flows through the town. The port is on the mouth of the river. The town is on the west coast of the North Island, about 200km north of Wellington.

This decision has annoyed the mayor 3, Michael Laws. He says that this is the way the town has spelt the name for the last 170 years so it should stay this way. In a referendum of local people recently, 77% said they wanted the spelling to stay the same.

However, the local Maori say that a mistake was made 170 years ago and it’s time the mistake was corrected. “Wanga” has no meaning in Maori. “Whanga”, however, means bay or harbour and “nui” means “large”.

Now the Minister for Land Information, Maurice Williamson, has to make the final decision. Whatever he decides, will not please everybody.

Listen also to April 22nd 2009 NZ Place Names



adj.地理学的,地理的
  • The city's success owes much to its geographic position. 这座城市的成功很大程度上归功于它的地理位置。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Environmental problems pay no heed to these geographic lines. 环境问题并不理会这些地理界限。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
n.市长
  • The new mayor said he would clean the city up.新市长说,他要整顿本市。
  • The mayor hurried into his office,brushing off the reporters.市长赶快走进办公室,拒不接见记者。
学英语单词
aconuresis
activated impurity
adelphophagy
anode basket
apteral
asearch
asymptotic angle
audio tape storage unit
beauregard
boiron
bring me down
camera oculi anterior
carriage drive
cathode assembly
citrate gel method
combustion chamber efficiency
contrapositions
crane rating
cut-fill section
cyanogen chloride
da-da-da-da
Dawson, Sir John William
deturning
dichaetomyia pallitarsis
Diospyros miaoshanica
dip log
discharge lag
dual-purposes
Egham
ehrenburg
ekow
Epuyén
estimated shipping date
feddens
folding plates
function preselection
gas solid equilibrium
geoengineers
gigaspora margarita
gill raker sieve
helitankers
high mu tube
infund
interatomic distance
ironlard tumor
Ken'yoshi
Kiwiana
Kosheleva, Vulkan
kusums
last-in-first-out (lifo)
laterosphenoid
lig. cuboideonaviculare plantare
Liquid Cargo Packing
Lonicera chrysantha
Losa, R.
mccreight
morning tea
Morus alba
nasal division
Neubukow
newsvan
nitrituria balance
no-bid
nonliterate culture
Pachuca
painted daisies
Payroux
performance test analysis
personnel forecast
pidonia gloriosa
pluffing
polymeric molybdate
population difference
precipitated calcium superphosphate
range of water level
ransom moneys
sacres
Sayntsagaan
sebha (sabha)
secondary constants
singular point of higher order
sizely
SMLR
Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications
sorex cinereuss
sound-proof fiber board
space invader
spittles
spun in casting
steam resistance
stigmatocythere bifurcata
stratum cutaneum
sub-allocation
sur model
thalline
treelet
uncodifying
uncompact
uni-cycle
whutterick
X-linkage
yuanhu zhitong tablets