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。
学英语单词
a devil of
acanth-
adiabatic head
agich
antiphase effect
arouse the displeasure of
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asteroids
automatic diagnosis
b and w
basis cerebri
benthohyponeuston
blank flange
Bolbosoma
bowery
brichardis
Brojce
castromelic monster
catcalls
cleopatre
cnidocil
come upon
commodity inspection
conchoidal motion
contextualist narratology
controlled rolling
controlling application program
counterdeed
cupola column
cyanometric titration
daemonize
data check
derived air concentration (dac)
Dionda
direct histogram specification
ditali(ni)
doshic
emberiza rutila
episymploce formosana formosana
evaluation technique
Ficus altissima
flame velocity
forward ground
geographical azimuth
get-rich-quicker
Gyrocheilos microtrichus
HERPET
high frequency direction finding
hodograph transformation
Hoepfner zinc process
hove-dance
Hyginus, Saint
in cahoot s with
infrared thermistor
interest sb in sth
Karsibór
licuala grandis
logical record processor
markell
Masingnyǒng
miaskite
mud breccia
non fatal error
overpage
painful stump
paola
pickup artist
plain fill
pressurized boiling water reactor
pull out all the stops
Ram R.
regular longwall along strike
reserve army
revolutionology
ropy milk
rustlingly
Satchel Paige
scorpaena grandicorniss
senior fellow apprentice
shatter-proof
shoebox
sodium p-amino salicylate
spider roll
superheater outlet pressure
swinninburg
synonimising
tangere ulcus
tetrataenites
the bamboo curtain
think of A as B
thrust-reverser
toluene distillation
toutatis
trigenic
turbulence element
unindented
unobjecting
upper berth ladder
uterine suture needle
wakeneth
whirlpool
wirelessing