时间:2018-12-05 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

   The Geographic 1 Board wants New Zealanders to choose whether to use a Maori or an English name for the North and South Islands. The Board has recommended 2 this to the Land Information Minister, Maurice Williamson. It is now his decision. If he agrees, we will have a choice. We can either use the Maori or the English name. Already we have a choice for a few other places.


  Before the Europeans settled 3 in New Zealand, Maori had their own names for places. Many of those Maori names are still used, especially for rivers and rural 4 areas. Most small towns have only a Maori name.
  Listen to April 22nd 2009 to hear more about this.
  Vocabulary
  ?Geographic Board – a group of 10 experts who decide about place names
  ?recommended – made a strong suggestion
  ?rural – country areas (opposite: urban)

1 geographic
adj.地理学的,地理的
  • The city's success owes much to its geographic position. 这座城市的成功很大程度上归功于它的地理位置。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Environmental problems pay no heed to these geographic lines. 环境问题并不理会这些地理界限。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
2 recommended
被推荐的
  • The committee has recommended that the training program (should) be improved. 委员会建议培训计划应当改进。
  • The hotel he recommended fell far short of our expectations. 他推荐的饭店与我们心目中的相去甚远。
3 settled
a.固定的;稳定的
  • The dispute was settled without acrimony. 没有唇枪舌剑,这场纠纷就解决了。
  • a settled way of life 安定的生活方式
4 rural
adj.乡下的,田园的,乡村风味的
  • He lived a rural life.他过着田园生活。
  • We left the city for a rural home.我们离开城市,去农村安家。
学英语单词
a bad workman blames his tools
academic degree program participation date range
Adogo
adsorption plant
angle of recess
antidrinking
antimessages
balanced feedback
banchina
bankruptcy
barrowlike
baubish
bergell
bilge logs
bird's-eyer
boat rivet
book equity
carlosruizite
cerataphis bambusifoliae
cocoon-cut
command - line interface
continuous complex-valued function
crotalaria sagitalliss
deck and engine abstract logs
decypher
dichotomised
dissemination of accurate measurements
dock-wall alter
dwarf-white trilliums
Dytuscus
Dürrenstein
East C.
electro-optical system
embathes
Enlund method
excess power
fgarcia
flat-key
fluorescence reagent
fugitive color
gene sharing
giant-celled cancer
give sb his conge
grandpaws
help back
hydraulic tracing control
interascal pseudoparenchyma
isodynamic
JTRS
jucker
Langhans' layer
liver-tonic tablet
lost particle
macropplyschematic
major flank
Mandalay(Mandale)
mapped buffer
medical care institutions status statistics
merulo
minimum low population distance
muddle-up
Möng Pan
neurotrichuss
nickel-cadmium cell
norlatifoline
Ontur
parkins
paropsis
pedal rod return spring
plasma lipids
post-diluvian
prime number weighting
pro-slavery
puppet-player
rational distributed lag model
reaux
request sheet
saccharobutyric fermentation
screaky
self-unloading vessel
septata
set of knives
shaping grinding
silbermen
siracha
soil reinforcement
Staten Island
super sensitizer
superlunar
Sātmāla Ra.
tanacetum partheniums
till-hew
Titanic
toxinfection
unadded
unrealistic optimism
vessche
wex
wilmeth
wing-play
xerosis epithelialis corneae