时间:2019-02-25 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

   Another New Zealand SAS soldier has been killed in Afghanistan, the second one in a month. He was Lance Corporal Leon Smith, from Wellington, aged 1 in his mid 2 thirties. He is the 4th New Zealand soldier to die in Afghanistan. SAS means Special Air Services. These are special soldiers who have a high level of training to fight against terrorism.


  New Zealand sent between 40 and 65 soldiers to Afghanistan from 2001 to 2005. From 2009, another group of SAS soldiers went to Afghanistan. They are due to come home in March 2012. At the moment about 35 SAS soldiers are in Kabul helping 3 Afghan police against Taliban fighters. Another 140 soldiers are helping to re-build Bamiyan province.
  With this second death, some politicians want New Zealand to end their involvement with Afghanistan. Tariana Turia, co-leader of the Maori Party, said the soldiers are serving the interests of the United States not New Zealand. However, the Prime 4 Minister, John Key, said that there are no plans to bring the soldiers home before March next year.
  Listen to August 4th 2010 to hear more about New Zealand soldiers in Afghanistan.
  Idiom
  to serve the interests of the US. – to do something that helps the US
  Questions
  1.Do you think New Zealand should bring their soldiers home now?
  2.Why are New Zealand soldiers in Afghanistan? Note that New Zealand sends soldiers to help with UN peace-keeping in many countries.

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。
adj.中央的,中间的
  • Our mid-term exam is pending.我们就要期中考试了。
  • He switched over to teaching in mid-career.他在而立之年转入教学工作。
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。
adj.首要的,主要的;最好的,第一流的
  • The prime minister spoke of the general insecurity in the country.总理谈到了全国普遍存在的不安全。
  • He met with the Prime Minister of Japan for an hour.他和日本首相会见了一个小时。
学英语单词
acridophosphine
adaptedness
alternating-group occulting light
approved society
badelaire
Balmhorn
Bhaun
bromoquinoline
c-fo
catch a turn
cetyl sulfate
cimicifuga foelida l. var. simplex huth.
comprehensive abilities
contract sign
control questionnaire
curdlings
dermatodynia
directly-coupled circuit
Dodurga
Dracon
echo amplitude
educational statistics
electronic codebook
Endospermum chinense
engineering materials
fasciculus arciformis pedis
feathering device
fistle
Flora Reef
Fukuda, Takeo
gouvernance
groundwater increment
headache powder
inclusion relation for sets
indanthrene bordeaux
international servant
japanning oven
k-resonance
land line facilities
larging
lay baptism
lingulatus
location mode data item
maderensis
Madinah
masterate
Meinertellidae
mittelstands
MLCPase
narrow-bore coiumn
neidium iridis
no-thoroughfare
non-men
nonelite
nova lisboa (huambo)
nutritional dropsy
o'grady
on site repair
one-stop shops
OP (opening)
optimal cost
optionlike
original
overcentralizing
oxyacetylene flame
paired comparison method
parboils
Platygloeeae
power aid
power collection
praeterition
present arms
progressive caving
radiorenogram
ragged pink
Ranunculus muscigenus
retire bonds
ring-gap restrictor
row-galley
satellite day
scalar coupling
sectional type tube expander
selection index
shuttie
stabs
stannous phenide
stehoscopy
tartness
Tealiban
technopathy
temmoku
theorbist
theoretical dynamometer card
total loading time
transfuge
Tugella Falls
Turkish lira
ulcus serpeng eorneae
unfasteners
valnllae vaginae
vertebrocostal angle
visual value