时间:2018-12-06 作者:英语课 分类:吉姆老爷.Lord.Jim


英语课

Helen Clark (born in 1950) is the 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand. She was in office between 1999 and 2008 and won three consecutive 1 national elections. She is the second longest serving prime minister in NZ’s history. In 2008, she won the UN Environment Programme Champions of the Earth award for her plan to make NZ the world’s first carbon zero nation.


Clark grew up in a farming family and she developed a great love for the land. As a teenager, she became politically active. She protested against the Vietnam War and foreign military bases in New Zealand. She graduated from university with a Master’s degree in politics in 1974. Her research was based on politics in the countryside.


Clark won her first election in 1981. She rose up through the ranks and served in different posts as Minister of Housing, Conservation, Health, and finally as Deputy Prime Minister. She has significantly reformed her country’s welfare system. She introduced many popular measures, including raising the minimum wage six times and abolishing interest on student loans.


In 2008, Clark signed a landmark 2 agreement that handed back land to the indigenous 3 Maori population. She was a fierce opponent of the invasion of Iraq and criticized American actions. She has forged strong relations with China, whose president calls her an “old friend”. She believes that “it’s inevitable 4 that NZ will become a republic” and “reflect the reality that NZ is a…21st century nation”.



1 consecutive
adj.连续的,联贯的,始终一贯的
  • It has rained for four consecutive days.已连续下了四天雨。
  • The policy of our Party is consecutive.我党的政策始终如一。
2 landmark
n.陆标,划时代的事,地界标
  • The Russian Revolution represents a landmark in world history.俄国革命是世界历史上的一个里程碑。
  • The tower was once a landmark for ships.这座塔曾是船只的陆标。
3 indigenous
adj.土产的,土生土长的,本地的
  • Each country has its own indigenous cultural tradition.每个国家都有自己本土的文化传统。
  • Indians were the indigenous inhabitants of America.印第安人是美洲的土著居民。
4 inevitable
adj.不可避免的,必然发生的
  • Mary was wearing her inevitable large hat.玛丽戴着她总是戴的那顶大帽子。
  • The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy.战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。
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a wet blanket
affenspalte
Albisheim (Pfrimm)
Alpha Geminorum
Ascherson's vesicles
average layday
axial-flow jet engine
basineted
bassich
Belopolye
blamelessness
blenno-
bromine flask
carbon powder
Carex kansuensis
CCR (central control room)
centroid of length
cogwares
cold finger(reflux)condenser
completeness check
corpspersons
crude extract
data source object exploit
derocher
dextrosulphenidol
discrete mesh
Djemmorah
e-tray
electrical equipment potting material
electrochemoluminescence
EUDR
fan-shaped manhole
fetishizes
fixed radix notation
fixed rate government bond
fungating chancre
genus sonoras
gerst
gloss medium
hessing
hexanitrodiphenyl
high or low selector
homoneura (homoneura) discoidalis
iodating agent
isolation periods
juniours
Kvalφya
launer
limpwort
lyticases
make a mystery of something
medieval schoolmen
medium split
megafills
megalogues
middle-line rudder
monitor(ing) (leak-off) tube
multiple-instruction-stream
myck
N-entity
non-stereospecificity
oleum hydnocarpi
over-printed resist
P pulse
persian ulcer
pickled eggs
Pico-RNA-viruses
Podmoskovskiy Ugol'nyy Basseyn
polarized light
protocol function
quilting cotton
radiaesthesia
reciprocating lever
releasing
retardation coil
rhubarb fluidextract
Samsam
sandle wood
semiconductor manufacturing equipment
service-baseds
sheer molding
single-end sizing
space launching technology
splashily
strawing
stray parameter
studient
tolerogenic
toxic dumpsites
transfer ledger
transmission character
traumatic urethral fistula
traveller number
treip
unciform
uninvidious
unjams
upper-middle-class
voting-paper
Weirsdale
winter-sleep
Yanchep