时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

  Last week, four New Zealanders won awards for this year. Each of them volunteered their time and skills to help others.

It is hard to say only one thing about each of these people because they have all done so much. Sam Tutu Chapman won the Local Heroes award. He has worked with gangs to help them change their behaviour.

Divya Dhar won the award for Young New Zealander of the Year. She has just graduated as a medical doctor. She has been active in helping 1 the poor in Third World countries among many other things.

Sir Eion Edgar is Senior New Zealander of the Year. He is the President of the New Zealand Olympic Committee. He is a businessman who has worked hard for people in sport and the arts – writers and artists. He is also involved in health issues like diabetes 2.

The main award, New Zealander of the Year, goes to Ray Avery, a man who set up a high tech laboratory in his garage. His company, Medicine Mondiale, has invented a number of products which can be used in the Third World. He invented a lens for people who have lost their eyesight because of cataracts 3. In 1992, these lenses cost $300 but Ray set up a factory in Eritrea and Nepal to make the lenses for a few dollars.

Here are some of his other inventions for Third World countries: a safe, cheap and re-usable incubator for pre-mature babies who have infections; a simple clip 4 to control the flow of drugs to patients on an intravenous (IV) drip; a powder for children who have diarrhea. This product is made from waste meat and kiwifruit so the cost is low. It is freeze dried and packed in small packets like a tea bag. It gives sick children instant energy. It sells for very little money in the Third World but athletes in the First World also buy it, and the cost is high for them.

Ray Avery had an unusual childhood. He was abandoned as a baby and brought up in an orphanage 5 in Britain. He ran away from the orphanage when he was 14 and lived on the streets in London. A year later, some university professors helped him to develop an interest in Science. He emigrated 6 to New Zealand where he started a pharmaceutical 7 company which makes drugs which help people. He said, “I believe that one person can change the world for the better.”

To find about more about these awards, go to the New Zealand awardswebsite.



n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
n.糖尿病
  • In case of diabetes, physicians advise against the use of sugar.对于糖尿病患者,医生告诫他们不要吃糖。
  • Diabetes is caused by a fault in the insulin production of the body.糖尿病是由体內胰岛素分泌失调引起的。
n.大瀑布( cataract的名词复数 );白内障
  • The rotor cataracts water over the top of the machines. 回转轮将水从机器顶上注入。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • Cataracts of rain flooded the streets. 倾盆大雨弄得街道淹水。 来自辞典例句
n.夹子,别针,弹夹,片断;vt.夹住,修剪
  • May I clip out the report on my performance?我能把报道我的文章剪下来吗?
  • She fastened the papers together with a paper clip.她用曲别针把文件别在一起。
n.孤儿院
  • They dispensed new clothes to the children in the orphanage.他们把新衣服发给孤儿院的小孩们。
  • They gave the proceeds of the sale to the orphanage.他们把销售的收入给了这家孤儿院。
移居国外( emigrate的过去式和过去分词 )
  • He's emigrated to the USA and gone completely native. 他已移居美国且完全成了美国人。
  • He emigrated to Belgium. 他移民到比利时。
adj.药学的,药物的;药用的,药剂师的
  • She has donated money to establish a pharmaceutical laboratory.她捐款成立了一个药剂实验室。
  • We are engaged in a legal tussle with a large pharmaceutical company.我们正同一家大制药公司闹法律纠纷。
学英语单词
Abbotsford
aeroguns
age-limit
anti-climbing
argue for
audience room
Australind
bearing on
beta-naphthoquinoline
bloodyhandedness
bohemeo
Brassaiopsis hainla
Bream, Julian
Canadian Association of Broadcasters
cell-freer
Colombian
compensating eyepiece
confidentiality agreements
customary's account
debona
deep-space
detective fiction
dissentshik
document architecture
Dorintosh
dual face
duodenoscopic
e-meter
earth board
embassies
Errochty Water
eumc
European water ouzel
executing a sentence outside of jail
ferritic-pearbite
fibrowatt
fleshes out
floating-rate
floodgums
fractional power law
Glafsfjörden
go after
Heracleum hemsleyanum
incohesion
International Rescue Committee
intrahepatic cholangiolar hepatitis
intuition type
Jamaican apple
john glover
judicial clause
jugale
Kaifu Toshiki
La Clayette
ligamentum transcersum atlantis
loabe
Lodhammar
lolland (laaland i.)
make an errand
management on board
method of areas
microhabitat
microprocessor language editor
milich
monobasic potassium oxalate
niman
non-listed company
ocean bottoms
Organa genitalia feminina interna
overprepared
paraphyte
Phlebochiton
pinions
prairie chicken
present-worth
prolonged succession
quantized interval
raft culture
reduction in pass
remember me to sb
research on markets
retinochoroiditis juxtapapillaris
retrochoir
reys
Saint Basil the Blessed
secondary couple
severe deformity
Sida subcordata
strawberry pears
sucking off
sync
tensile creep test
terfluranol
the hunger games
thick-legged
third class commercial paper
till the earth
ultrasonic examination of urogenital system
untimeous
Wahhabi
well-illustrated
Whistler's Mother
wire filter