时间:2019-02-18 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

  New Zealand has had MMP voting for our Members of Parliament 1 for the last 16 years. MMP means 2 Mixed Member Proportional 3. The system we had before MMP was called First Past the Post, like horse racing 4, where the winner was the one with the most votes. If one party got 51% of the vote, that party became the government. Now under MMP, small parties have a chance to be in Parliament. If a small party gets 5% of the vote or wins one seat, that party can have 5% of MPs. We have 120 MPs in Parliament so 5% is 6MPs. In the last 16 years, we have had small parties in Parliament like the Maori Party, ACT and the Greens. Some of these small parties agree to support a bigger party to give them more than 50% of MPs in Parliament.

During the last election 5, National promised there would be a referendum on MMP. Yesterday John Key said that in the next election, in 2011, we will have a chance to vote about this. Do we want to continue with MMP? Is there a better way to choose MPs? One possibility is to give 1 to your first choice, 2 to your second choice, 3 to your third choice and so on. Or we could go back to First Past the Post.



n.议会,国会
  • She won a seat in Parliament at the election.她在选举中赢得了议会中的席位。
  • The drug was banned by an act of parliament.议会的法案明令禁止该药品。
n.方法,手段,折中点,物质财富
  • That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
  • We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。
adj.成比例的,相称的;n.[数]比例项
  • The increase of wages is proportional to the rise in prices.工资的增长与物价的上涨是成比例的。
  • The output should be proportional to the input.输出应当与输入成比例。
n.竞赛,赛马;adj.竞赛用的,赛马用的
  • I was watching the racing on television last night.昨晚我在电视上看赛马。
  • The two racing drivers fenced for a chance to gain the lead.两个赛车手伺机竞相领先。
n.选举,选择权;当选
  • There is no doubt but that he will win the election.毫无疑问,他将在竞选中获胜。
  • The government will probably fall at the coming election.在即将到来的大选中,该政府很可能要垮台。
学英语单词
abnormal phoneme
aestuum
alternative carriage
anal operculum
antiarachnolysin
backstair
banana kicks
barenboim
be under review
BISCS
bow mechanism
bursae iliopectinea
Chladni
chromium tungstate
compound oil
concentrated evaporator
conical gauge
conpsoromic acid
convergence region
countryish
debit credit mechanism
delayed time-base sweep
disarmings
discredits
distinctiveness ratio
electropositive
erewhile (s)
extended field
filament blend yarn
Flumezin
foreappoint
forest goats
formation signal
frontal-contour chart
Gaius Julius Caesar
Galton's delta
gastrique
generalife
Gentianopsis holopetala
get ... on
gnathoscope
Guy's pill
Huschke's valves
hyperegy
integrated tug-barge
it feels like
kalioun
karagandas
Kievites
KING (Kinetic Intense Neutron Generator)
layman management
line control word
lobotess
lobularities
luci
magnesium carbonate
Makhāmīr, Jab.al
microwave dryer
mimoplocia notata
MIRAPINNIDAE
modern drama
nandrolone phenylpropionate
nonimplant
Olovyannaya
one quadrant convertor
optical parallelism
overhead
p-hydroxyphenylpyruvic acid
pendler
PHLA
placida dendritica
predicator
production engine
provisional acceptance
purophobia
requisite book
reverse-commutes
rule with an iron fist
Sikkim holly
siliceous geyserite
solid error
solid lubricant
solubility parameter
spermatozoon (pl. spermatozoa)
spray chemical
stationary tangent
Stenshuvud
subdivision rules
taxation theories and principles
the Demerara
thinkos
tidal zone biology
timber drying
tropical air mass
true income
undilating
US Coast Guard
Wii Sports
wolf jaw
xterra
yard craft