时间:2018-12-29 作者:英语课 分类:英语名人堂


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海伦·伊丽莎白·克拉克,生于新西兰汉密尔顿。1999年12月5日起任新西兰总理。2008年11月19日卸任,继任者是约翰·基。


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
acceptable behavior
agitato
aluminum solder
anchorage-dependent
apparent ray crossing
artifical environment
artificial levee breach
Association of Caribbean States
axle pulley
backcast
backlog by buyer report
batoned
book of bill for acceptance
Botnafjöll
buckles
calciocopiapite
cardueline
centrocecal
Cestos R.
coccocarpia pellita
coenobitic
coinitial
corrugated nozzle
courtship behavior
CRVF
cyclosizer
decaff
deep slow flow zone
deflection efficient
dispersion of wave guide
Dryinidae
enamelled-wire cable
esterly
excessive overhang of tool
first over kettle
fixed placement
fuck
furred ceiling
FUTOP
genus alsobias
genus Corokia
haute-savoie
Hawer retaining reels
heterostyle
high pressure fuel injection pump assembly
Himalansaari
hoys
hydraulic bedplate
idlis
intergalactic cloud
investment companies
isochronal performance test
iWARP
jasper stoneware
jefferson daviss
Ligamenta anularia
ligamenta spirale cochleae
like nothing on earth
line graphics
maneuverability indices
mass yield curve
microsegment
moniliaceaes
order instruction
ovogonia
pellicles
perfluoropropylene
pericemental necrosis
phosphuria
pickup chopper
piled box type substructure
plastic hereditary theory
Pleione formosana
polychromatic acid
polymetallic sulfide
power control mode
Primorsko-Akhtarskiy Rayon
relapsing polychondritis
restless limbs
reunify
reversible pitch propellers
ryvitas
secretory epithelial cells
see-safe
semi-variable condenser
Senate Bill
Shiga's bacillus
Sparganium yunnanense
specialty debt
straight away
stream temperature
street front
terminal code letter
to house
Torres, C.
under applied factory overhead
under clothes
undertissue
uniconic
velocity constant
vibration of hydrogenerator set
wintrified