时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:最新15篇文章贯通英语四级词汇


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[00:00.00]The need for new markets,

[00:02.17]and a solid defense 1 system

[00:04.26]from potential invasion

[00:05.79]by the United States,

[00:07.21]brought an acute awareness 2

[00:08.96]to these diverse colonies that

[00:10.92]they should look to

[00:12.78]each other for resolutions

[00:14.21]to these problems.

[00:15.85]They felt uneasy trying

[00:18.58]to cope against these

[00:20.44]adversities on their own.

[00:21.98]Sir John A. Macdonald from United Canada,

[00:26.35]the dominant 3 personality at this time,

[00:29.64]also saw the acceleration 4 of

[00:31.71]American settlers moving north

[00:34.23]and spreading throughout the flat

[00:36.85]prairie lands to the west.

[00:38.60]This would potentially put a wall

[00:41.78]between the colonies in the East

[00:43.96]and the lonely western British colony

[00:46.60]in what is today part

[00:48.35]of British Columbia on the west

[00:49.98]coast of North America.

[00:52.39]Macdonald felt that

[00:54.80]the situation was urgent.

[00:56.44]In the summer of 1864,

[01:00.05]the maritime 5 colonies of Nova Scotia,

[01:03.77]Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland

[01:06.83]scheduled a meeting to discuss

[01:08.91]the possibility of a customs union

[01:11.53]or free trade area to compensate 6

[01:14.16]for the latest setbacks

[01:16.35]in trade relations with Britain

[01:18.65]and the United States.

[01:20.29]Macdonald managed to get permission

[01:23.79]for some delegates from United Canada

[01:25.76]to attend as observers.

[01:27.73]For a number of years,

[01:31.12]United Canada was experiencing

[01:33.20]problems of political deadlock 7.

[01:36.26]Canada West was predominantly English speaking

[01:40.48]and Canada East was

[01:42.68]predominantly French speaking.

[01:44.97]A central government, set up in 1841,

[01:49.01]required a majority from

[01:51.86]both Canada West and Canada East

[01:54.27]for all legislation to become law.

[01:57.55]It was very difficult

[02:00.06]to pass significant legislation

[02:02.26]when two opposing views

[02:04.33]were constantly being debated

[02:06.63]and legislative 8 bills were

[02:08.49]constantly being defeated.

[02:10.46]The Canadians saw a new,

[02:13.31]wider union, a potential new national

[02:16.91]institution or central government,

[02:18.99]as a possible solution for

[02:20.96]breaking out of this

[02:23.15]constant political disorder 9.

[02:24.79]The Canadian delegates sailed

[02:27.97]on board a cruise ship down

[02:30.15]the St. Lawrence River,

[02:31.57]into the Gulf 10 of St. Lawrence,

[02:33.11]to Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island.

[02:35.73]This convention expanded to

[02:39.02]discussions of the possibility

[02:41.20]of all the British colonies

[02:43.17]uniting into one nation



1 defense
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
2 awareness
n.意识,觉悟,懂事,明智
  • There is a general awareness that smoking is harmful.人们普遍认识到吸烟有害健康。
  • Environmental awareness has increased over the years.这些年来人们的环境意识增强了。
3 dominant
adj.支配的,统治的;占优势的;显性的;n.主因,要素,主要的人(或物);显性基因
  • The British were formerly dominant in India.英国人从前统治印度。
  • She was a dominant figure in the French film industry.她在法国电影界是个举足轻重的人物。
4 acceleration
n.加速,加速度
  • All spacemen must be able to bear acceleration.所有太空人都应能承受加速度。
  • He has also called for an acceleration of political reforms.他同时呼吁加快政治改革的步伐。
5 maritime
adj.海的,海事的,航海的,近海的,沿海的
  • Many maritime people are fishermen.许多居于海滨的人是渔夫。
  • The temperature change in winter is less in maritime areas.冬季沿海的温差较小。
6 compensate
vt.补偿,赔偿;酬报 vi.弥补;补偿;抵消
  • She used her good looks to compensate her lack of intelligence. 她利用她漂亮的外表来弥补智力的不足。
  • Nothing can compensate for the loss of one's health. 一个人失去了键康是不可弥补的。
7 deadlock
n.僵局,僵持
  • The negotiations reached a deadlock after two hours.两小时后,谈判陷入了僵局。
  • The employers and strikers are at a deadlock over the wage.雇主和罢工者在工资问题上相持不下。
8 legislative
n.立法机构,立法权;adj.立法的,有立法权的
  • Congress is the legislative branch of the U.S. government.国会是美国政府的立法部门。
  • Today's hearing was just the first step in the legislative process.今天的听证会只是展开立法程序的第一步。
9 disorder
n.紊乱,混乱;骚动,骚乱;疾病,失调
  • When returning back,he discovered the room to be in disorder.回家后,他发现屋子里乱七八糟。
  • It contained a vast number of letters in great disorder.里面七零八落地装着许多信件。
10 gulf
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
学英语单词
a blanket of sth
acetogeneses
after twelve
alignment diagnostic
ambulance corps
angiologies
antiradical
antiulcerogenic
Apractognosia
aster ericoidess
blenderizes
Bourdon pressure gage
breast bone saw
catalog management
Chasseral
chip curl
Cineform
communities
Coragoxin
count down
crown-of-thorns
de jong and bouman photographs
decussroium
deliberate maiming
deterministic finite tree automaton
divvied
dune belt
effective Hall Parameter
elastic theory
electric machine for tropical use
electric-shocks
electricity system
electro-chemical reactor
exhilarate
Faliero
Ffs
floating pontoon wharf
foot rests
foreshore
Gempei War
generalized polynomials
gigamp
handywomen
hemophilus ducrevi
hernial covering
heterophone
induced radioactive nuclide
janking
land tax collected in kind
Las Peňas
late fee
lee-boot effect
Lefini
looping structure
low-growth
macrocryst
Madrid interband offered rate
managerial goals
marbletopped
mcanarney
McKnight L.
mentsch
Met.E
microphytophagous mites
nanolaminates
Nazirite
net shaker
nitroanilide
nonlinear parametrization
Ollerton
outfinessed
p-(p-toluoyl)benzoic acid
para-site
periblast
play a waiting game
pogostemon cablins
pollution,contamination
precaudal plate
presentation model
pro fanity
red bayberries
redundancy check
retzina
Rhamnus croceus
roller bin gate
secancy
send someone off
side frequency
slipped his wind
soal
steel plate galvanized
sto gate dielectric
Stop loss limit
traffic surveillance and control system
trifoveolate
tursiopss
TV-ad
unturns
Utta
Valle del Cauca
vernalised
vrindi