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。
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ACC (accessory gear)
activized
additive interference
adion
all-electric plant
antiseptically
aortic plexuss
backribs
batshitness
bedspring array
beryllium powder
BRL-3000
broad-leaved everlasting pea
Bushspeak
business executives
chambered swim bladder
check-point
combined enamel epithelium
conjugate branches
Cornerville
design language processor
differential returns
drift distance
dugalds
dunkelberg
dyschromic
fakir
favel
fawners
first order differential operator
fuel line
GECTA
gypsic yermosols
hanau
harbagar
hologymnosus semidiscus
hydrodynamic torque transformer
informational node
integrated country approach
inter space
international multimodal transport
irregular colour
jack shalloo
karger
kcvoes
Ken-zaki
kilokatals
lipovka
Lipovskiy
live within your means
magnificative
MDiv
mercury drop amplitude
micron micrometer
milk proteins
milled rice
minimonitor
movement of population
museologies
National Committee for Information Technology Standards
nlap
nonaccountable
oikosite
ommatius compactus
ore grade
oscillation speed of rod
overhead cam shaft
Papas, Akra
pistul
plainsong
pleuropericardial accentuated
podosphere
powee
print setting
profile dispersion
pulsarlike
pumping out
quenching of phosphorescence
Schwann
semi fixed
service passport
Siluric
single chip
skiagraphies
symphalangus siamangs
synchro resolver transformator
test sheet
the RAF
thinking more
three character primer
tolerance error
trans-regulator
Ugol'naya, Bukhta
uncancerous
unexpected discovery
vesicular glands
virogenesis
what the hock
white-heart
wool staple
word division
xFGF