时间:2019-02-17 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

   Mojo Mathers is New Zealand’s first deaf Member of Parliament. She is a list MP for the Green Party. She has been profoundly deaf since her birth but lip-reads well and can use New Zealand sign language. She also speaks clearly.


  In spite of her hearing disability, Ms Mathers has an Honours degree in Mathematics and a Masters degree in Conservation Forestry 1. She has worked as a senior policy advisor 2 for the Greens since 2006. She has been very active in environmental matters, especially water rights. She helped to stop the building of a dam to provide water for dairy farmers.
  Parliament has provided her with a laptop computer and software at her desk in Parliament to help her understand what other MPs are saying. However, there are some problems with the software and she wants Parliament to pay for a person to take notes for her. The Speaker of the House said the Green Party should pay for this person. Mojo says that the Party funding is to help with Party work. For example, this money pays for office staff.
  Louise Carroll from the National Foundation for the Deaf said that it would be helpful to many deaf people if Parliament TV had written captions 3 on the screen. She also asked why New Zealand Sign Language is not used in Parliament. It is our third official language along with English and Maori.
  Tomorrow, Mojo Mathers will give her first speech in Parliament which will be translated by sign-language interpreters.
  Listen to May 4th 2009 to hear more about New Zealand Sign Language.
  Vocabulary
  list MP – the Green Party got 11.1% of the vote in the elections which gave them 14 seats. Mojo Mathers was number 14 on their list.
  profoundly deaf – cannot hear even loud noises
  conservation – keeping forests
  policy – ideas and actions for the Party
  water rights – ownership of water
  Questions
  ?Do you think Parliament should provide equipment or facilities for disabled MPs, for example wheelchair access if needed?
  ?Should a Party choose to put a disabled person on their list? Who should pay for someone to take notes for a deaf MP – the Party or Parliament?

n.森林学;林业
  • At present, the Chinese forestry is being at a significant transforming period. 当前, 我国的林业正处于一个重大的转折时期。
  • Anhua is one of the key forestry counties in Hunan province. 安化县是湖南省重点林区县之一。
n.顾问,指导老师,劝告者
  • They employed me as an advisor.他们聘请我当顾问。
  • The professor is engaged as a technical advisor.这位教授被聘请为技术顾问。
n.标题,说明文字,字幕( caption的名词复数 )v.给(图片、照片等)加说明文字( caption的第三人称单数 )
  • I stared, trying to grasp the point of the picture and the captions. 我目不转睛地看着漫画,想弄清楚漫画和解说词的意思。 来自辞典例句
  • Indicates whether the user or the system paints the captions. 指示是由用户还是由系统来绘制标题。 来自互联网
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adjoint boundary value problem
afterthink
amphibiology
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at it again
benzohydrol
best mean square predictor
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brush artery
Bunsen eudiometer
buy out someone
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close(d)
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consonant rhymes
continuous-duty
curvimurate
determine by votes
differential cross section
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double expansion steam engine
drying intensity
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Dyphytline
e. vulgaris rich var. helvetica h. et t.
enruin
field-vole
filling cyclone
filter-binding
floor skirt
garmentmaker
Genola
geze
golf links
Governor L.
gymnosporangium formosanum
hemiparasites
high-risk decision
hydrature
hydrokryptoacetylene
jelly
kelsons
Kotava
Laporte selection rule
lateral amniotic fold
malfetti
menopausal syndrome
mine worker
multiplex printing
nonhemodynamic
nontracking
Oakville
optical beams
outward-bound ship
palmar furuncle
persicaria barbata gracilis
phytoerythrins
polar nuclei
post-strike
price revolution
psilophytaceaes
pussyclaat
re-listen
rectifier electric motor vehicle
restrictive system
roll correction
Sazeracs
scopometry
sekke
senile macular degeneration
shipborad telecommunication cable
slaughterhall
slide valve link
sparsomycin
split chuck
stand cap
stearmans
stem bar
sulfoximine
test bed results
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Ulmus parvifolia
unbishops
underwater sonic communication gear
unhelm
unindividualized
vibration direction
vinton
virement system
well-trussed
widely spaced stanchion
windsor (bean)
Yonsu-ri
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