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 scratch of pen
acrylic water-soluble transparent baking paint
algebraic theory of complexity
APT compiler
Aromanians
artificial earth fill
blanket felt
buoyancy tank
bus mouse
celibataire
circumduce
circumplex
credit card holder
disk array
earthy carbonated spring
eat holes in
elebore
electronic sterillization
Enif
epilepsia nutans
evangel
expansion trunk hatchway
flash allowance
Goil, Loch
grapefruit juice
green linen
hask?y (hocuvan)
horror-show
horse
hysteroneurosis
image section coils
in the east
influct
inside chasing tool (inside chaser)
interferonalfa
jeux d'enfants
Lesvos, Nisos
lidlocks
look daggers
lotus berthelotiis
low interest rate
lungkang formation
manual input unit
Melalopha anastomosis
Milankovitch cycle
mobility difference
mono-bank system
motoring test
mouchard
Myoserol
Ngoc Son
noise bars
Opisthocoela
optimum clearance
Oriental Longhair
outside transfer calipers
ox-bow effect
paper tray indicator
parfait glasses
phenol-decomposing bacteria
polyglobuly
polymer drilling fluid
Polynesian arrowroot
popular chart
position indicating mark
psychotypological
quantitative pharmacology
radiative transition probability
revenue collecting office
rhizospheric microflora of soil
rhombic interference ripple
roof protrusion
scout aeroplane
sea carrying trade
secured lenders
short sea trade
shozz
silene fissipetala kiruniinsularis
smoked herrings
special status
stdiobuf
straddling dipper handle
structural birefringence
sulfophenyl
Swertia leducii
take seriously
technocratically
tiermuid
torcitabine
travel time tomography
trichinotic
two-ofs
unpacifiable
v. cervicalis profunda
vacuator
Ventas de Narón
water film bearing
weather bar
Wiawso
yinyang
you don't say!
zero velocity curve