时间:2018-12-05 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

   Conservation Week starts tomorrow. During that week, DOC – the Department of Conservation – would like New Zealanders to celebrate our special places and our native wildlife.


  What are our special places? Our National Parks are some of our special places. New Zealand has 14 National Parks. The largest is Fiordland National Park, at 12, 519 square kilometres while the smallest is Abel Tasman National Park at 225 square km. This is a very popular place on the NE coast of the South Island.
  The coastline of our country, with beaches and rocky shores, gives us many other special places to visit and enjoy the natural scenery. Native bush on hills and around mountains also gives us popular places to visit and enjoy the natural scenery.
  Our native wildlife includes sea mammals such as dolphin and seals. Yesterday DOC created a new marine 1 reserve around Taranaki to protect the Maui Dolphin. Listen to April 15 2013 to hear about the Akaroa marine reserve.
  Other native wildlife are our native birds, lizards 2 and insects. The only native mammals are bats. All other mammals like sheep, cows, dogs, cats and so on are not native to New Zealand. When the first Maori came to New Zealand, probably about 700 years ago, there were no land mammals. Maori brought dogs and rats with them. Europeans brought farming mammals in the 19th century.
  So this week is a time to teach children about looking after our native landscape, plants and animals. It’s a time for all of us to enjoy our special outdoor places.
  Vocabulary
  conservation – protect the environment
  coastline – the line between the sea and the land; the shore
  marine – sea
  reserve – protected area
  mammals – warm-blooded animals which give birth to live babies; the babies drink mother’s milk
  native – born in this country
  brought – past of bring (compare bought, past of buy)
  landscape – large area of natural scenery

1 marine
adj.海的;海生的;航海的;海事的;n.水兵
  • Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
  • When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时,他自愿参加了海军陆战队。
2 lizards
n.蜥蜴( lizard的名词复数 )
  • Nothing lives in Pompeii except crickets and beetles and lizards. 在庞培城里除了蟋蟀、甲壳虫和蜥蜴外,没有别的生物。 来自辞典例句
  • Can lizards reproduce their tails? 蜥蜴的尾巴断了以后能再生吗? 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
air weapons controller
analytical geometry of space
antifungal factor
antihomomorphism
ball bearing shielded
BEOP
bilge board scow
cassone
castane
chelon
Chirico, Giorgio de
civilized behavior
civitas
clett
complementary arc
concentrate fresh milk
courtlike
coveners
crosswind stability test
crown of beam
decoster
densifications
dispatch tables
Elatolite
electro-optic transmitter
Empoundment
farm sth out
fi-lb
flint corn
forsung
free oil lubricating compressor
free-verser
fruge
gapest
grism
haematogeneses
halden
hammady
human interface technology laboratory
idumean
Impatiens toxophora
implementation of the transport level
inelasticity coefficient
initial test
integrated optical spectrum analyzer
intracanaliculi
issuable
italicus
Kartarpur
lexian distributions
lymphadenovarix
memorialized
mennonitisms
mental energy
microwave source
mole skin
networked community
Nicollella
noncontaminated atmosphere
objective behavior inventory
odd electron spin
order of dimensioning
oxygen fill valve
parathyroid tetany
penetrating effect
Philippopolis
pinto bean
platform end door
protoform
publicly
pyres
refractometric analysis
return-tube boiler
rounds per shift
Saiyid Mazār
short shut-down
simple and opposite
Sovkhoznyy
static convergence correction
subdelirium
sums up
super-short
superheater flue
swallow nest
taeniarhynchosis
tear gases
terry sole
thyristor brush
transfer tensor
underscan
unhaired hide
upper window edge
valerian fluidextract
vibration proofing material
vinactane
weigh on sb
without further ado
woonerfs
woronoff ring
wrapping-up
xerophytia
zamia pumilas