时间:2019-02-17 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

   After the Labour Party lost the election, the leader, Phil Goff, resigned. Later this week the Party will choose another leader. They will choose between two men – David Shearer 1 and David Cunliffe. Both men have been speaking at Labour Party meetings. Party members are very interested and large numbers of members have attended the meetings.


  David Cunliffe is the MP for New Lynn in Auckland. In 2007 and 2008 he was the Minister for Health and for Communications and Technology. For the last three years, while Labour was in Opposition 2, he was the Finance spokesperson for Labour. He has been in Parliament since 1999 but he is still a young man – in his late 40s. His deputy would be Nanaia Mahuta and she could help bring back Maori voters.
  David Shearer is also an Auckland MP. He won the Mt Albert seat in June 2009 when Helen Clark left Parliament so he has only been in Parliament a short time. However, he was a diplomat 3 and has worked for the United Nations, Save the Children and other humanitarian 4 organizations in Somalia and many other countries where there is war. He says that this means he is good at working with people.
  The Labour Party believes there must be a change in the future to win the next election.
  Vocabulary
  leadership – the job of being a leader
  resigned – said he would not be the leader any more
  Opposition – the main party not in government
  spokesperson – his job was to watch the Minister of Finance and show that Labour had better finance ideas
  deputy – second to the leader
  diplomat – represents the government overseas
  humanitarian – caring for people
  Question
  Is it a good idea to have a leadership contest? Does it split the Party or does it create more interest?

n.剪羊毛的人;剪切机
  • A bad shearer never had a good sickle. 拙匠无利器。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Eventually, Shearer lost faith, dropping him to the bench. 最终,希勒不再信任他,把他换下场。 来自互联网
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
n.外交官,外交家;能交际的人,圆滑的人
  • The diplomat threw in a joke, and the tension was instantly relieved.那位外交官插进一个笑话,紧张的气氛顿时缓和下来。
  • He served as a diplomat in Russia before the war.战前他在俄罗斯当外交官。
n.人道主义者,博爱者,基督凡人论者
  • She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业,并作了很大的贡献。
  • The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。
学英语单词
advocacy policy
assembler list
atoothfairyists
Banī Khawāt
black masculinity
Blanco, L.
Blonville-sur-Mer
Brovst
buuelos
caporegime
carotid artery stenosis
casing sizing
Cidoferron
classification yard
cold-cocked
coloured leaf
conductivity measuring apparatus
deditions
disappearance of outcrop
Dubovitsy
Easter Sunday
enamel matrix
evilest
extraspinal
first line switch
flashing light signal
flight data recorder
fruit farming
gelatinous tumor
glutethimide
green turtle soups
guomindangs
helminthosporium marantae
high cecum
hop-o-my-thumb
hub bolt
hydrospire
impassable trench
iron foil
jump boat
Kangos
kelex
Khonds
latint image
lead and leave edges
liver-blood
located in welded joint
loure
Macrocycline
Management Tools
mansa longicauda
microbrachia
milk analysis
milk plant
miter ga(u)ge
navicula cincta
nominal pull-in torque
odle
optimal file allocation
optography
palletising
photo-chemical
powerhead
practical column temperature
price of the privilege
prisma
proofreaders marks
provoker
pyroelectric retina TV tube
Rabdosia parvifolia
recessed verandah
recodes
replacement lamp
sack cleaner
sailorizes
sealing member
sequential network
serratio peptidase
Shannon's expansion theorem
slaister
snaillike
spectacle flange
squamous cell carcinoma of nasopharynx
standby transformer
statute laws
Stoughton bitters
superalloy
suprachoroidea
theory of errors of observation
total telegraph distortion
tractus praeopticohypophyseos
trip length
tropical rain forest?
tube drawing bench
ultramarine ashes
usudaiko odori (japan)
Vaughan's split products
von karman number
walk out of
wet mixing plant
whittering
x-ray water phantom for chest and abdomen