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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academic building
achromic point
Agaie
agonous
algebraic apparent power
Alternanthera sessilis
Anapsida
answer jack
aperture of antenna
apodal
at a push
be chicken
become thin
blustein
Boudjouma
boundary layer flux
boylesk
butter colo(u)r
Cartesian devil
circumferential component
commonplace-book
complementary enterprise
conspiratorily
countermeasure sonar
creatine phosphoric acids
cylindrical equation
dead reckoner
declutch shift shaft
depth factor
Diospyrin
dried crab roe
Duckworth-Lewis method
electricity production
favonian
fellwalkings
field magnetomotive force
flaction
flame material
fluoracyl chloride
Greek numerals
group relay
hetlage
Hildegard of Bingen
hush-hush
hydrodynamic form
if-a-then-b gate
interaction prediction principle
Japanophone
Jean Louis
Jānī Beyglū
katrice
l-shapeds
lacquered cable
linear planting
liquid toilet soap
local tabulation
loppel
meningocoele
musculi interfoveolaris
NEPA (Nuclear Energy for Propulsion of Aircraft)
null sharpness
Old Belarusian
oxidates
parachute opening speed
pathetism
photoelectric phenomena
physiologic excavation
pigeon pox virus
poorly paid
population growth form
pre-axal
pur-chop
Raynham Park
resource-allocation
rotating joint with multiple flow paths
rowapraxin
rubidium dichromate
Santo Cristo, R.
scoop tube
seal on the spot
seatrouts
sessilifolan
social-messaging
soundmasters
standard time of observation
sunsun
suvs
take the wraps off something
taper-tap
tar us
thran
throught ticket
titration curve of neutralization
Truncus nervi accessorii
turbant
underwashing
Vedanta
ventriloquism effect
voltage compensation method
wave of infinitely small amplitude
wood drill bit chuck
worst-case bound