时间:2019-02-18 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

  A New Zealand soldier was killed today in Bamiyan province, Afghanistan. He was Lieutenant 1 Tim O’Donnell, aged 2 28. Two other New Zealand soldiers and an Afghan interpreter were also injured.

He is the first New Zealand soldier to die in Afghanistan. 109 New Zealand soldiers are in Bamiyan province helping 3 to build hospitals, schools and roads. They are also helping to train Afghan police. The New Zealand soldiers are very popular with the people in Bamiyan province. However, three vehicles were travelling through a valley when they were attacked from the hills above them.

New Zealand also has 86 soldiers fighting in Kabul. These are SAS soldiers. Their work is usually much more dangerous. Listen to May 4th 2010 for more about our soldiers in Afghanistan.

NZ has had soldiers in Afghanistan since 2003. The Prime Minister said New Zealand will continue to send soldiers to Afghanistan for another year and maybe for longer. The soldiers serving in Bamiyan will return to New Zealand next month but more soldiers will replace them in October.

The death of Tim O’Donnell is a very sad day for his family, friends and all who knew him. He was a fine young man. In 2008, he received a medal for bravery when he saved the lives of other soldiers in East Timor. The army is planning a military funeral for him. The New Zealand flag was flying at half mast 4 on Parliament buildings today. This shows that someone important has died.

Questions

1. Do you think New Zealand should continue to send soldiers to Afghanistan?

2. The soldiers in Bamiyan are helping to re-build the country. Why were they attacked?

3. The USA has lost more than 1200 soldiers in the war in Afghanistan. Why are we so sad about the death of one soldier?



n.陆军中尉,海军上尉;代理官员,副职官员
  • He was promoted to be a lieutenant in the army.他被提升为陆军中尉。
  • He prevailed on the lieutenant to send in a short note.他说动那个副官,递上了一张简短的便条进去。
adj.年老的,陈年的
  • He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了,也老点了。
  • He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老,然而记忆力还好。
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
n.船桅,桅杆,旗杆,天线杆
  • Flags are flying at half-mast across China.全中国将半旗。
  • The sails were flapping against the mast.帆拍打着桅杆。
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acetimido
Achnatherum duthiei
acid, amino
adventive embryo
agaroidase
alguita
allocated resource
arsenic diiodide
autosynthetic calls
Baron Snow of Leicester
baronady
battery system
baumgardner
be fast on the draw
bigamous
bioptikon
buysse
capital of Turkey
ceropria schenklingi
conjunctival layer of bulb
conversationed
correspondece theorem
cotton wools
cradle switch
delivery volume
dimethylamines
Dos Passos, John (Roderigo )
drop indicator board
ectopsocus ornatus
electrochemical dimensional machining
elliptic type
exchanging documents of mining survey
faitneant
fiuted roller
flat detachment of retina
flop valve
flunker
fly bomb
freeboard calculation
Godφy
ground-elders
Hachon
half derivative
heliport beacon
high-energy fission
high-resolution mass spectrometry
huie
ignominiousness
immunoserology
independent functions
instability of employment
laboratory proofing
laffed
late barrier
light emitting screen
low pressure bubble
madogs
Marineo
meat loaf form
meimuna goshizana
molar sheath
motor plow
mountain partridges
Nagate-zaki
needle-catching forceps
paleohistopathological
perichorioidal
pharmacy and therapeutics committee
pirages
planispiral
political theories
poor-quality concrete
pot crossing
preadjusts
punch-type
pupiled
quadrumvir
refractionometer
retroillumination
self-sustenance
serotyping
signal extraction
sinless
slip fitting
Sorbus pohuashanensis Hedl.
spitzbergens
sweat bags
tail rope
tectonic lithofacies
theras
thoracogastrodidymus
toilingly
tomatin(e)
transverse chart
twist one's arm
universal burner
unkingdomed
unworkables
vampirizing
with difficulty
zero point vibrations
zoocidal