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
学英语单词
0831
aberrant behavior
anti-biological warfare
antizymes
auto-lumbomassage
be barred from
bioscientists
biotin complex of yeast
bipolarmos
black rots
body surfing
bowl vent valve
butenafine
certificate on progress
class or representative action
combining characters
common lead method
cospace
delugeth
description of forest
Diclinixin
diffuse tissue
diphasic strain
Diplosporium
direct dialing-in
Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich
don't rush me
epidemic encephalitis
ethnoculturally
exponential time base
fact-checkers
feudal rush
fiorinia linderae
Fuck it all!
Geluwe
golden image
Gorelovka
guayule rubber (fer-thenium argentum)
Hall angular displacement transducer
harlon
Hassidic
high magnification
high pressure jet
homograft reaction
hot air distributor
IAAG
It never rains but it pours
Ivdel'
left averted photography
look through the fingers at
louzeiro
lower tail coverts
market body
mcilvaine
metaperceptual
Meyer's organ
national labor relations act
nonextended address space
Novadel
nutritional agents
orthopraxy
Ottawa R.
overvolted
Pambula
pathogenic dryness
pernio bullosus
photographic mapping
pissane
potassium phosphate,tribasic
previvation
Priupskiy
pulverized fuel line
ralph bunches
range octagon
rare earth doped glasses
reduced inspection
relations
representation of plans
reserve factor
reset router
reticulated veins
retrospective
root bend test
S. G.
solid state power amplifier
spectral projector
staurolite kyanite subfacies
steel pipe pile
string together
STX
take sb in tow
telluric method
the lid
translate
turbine locomotive
tyre inflator
value voter
valve three way
VITC
wind egg
withered zone
wordmongers