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Reading NEW ZEALAND
閱讀 新西蘭島
New Zealand is an island that lies off the eastern coast of Australia.
新西蘭島是奧大利東海岸隔海相望的一個島嶼。
It is made up of two large islands:North Island and South Island.
它由二個島嶼組成:北島和南島。
New Zealand is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean to the north and east,
新西蘭島的北部和東部被太平洋圍繞著。
and the Tasman Sea to the south and west.
而南部和西部是塔斯曼海。
It is about the same size as Japan.
它大約和日本差不多大。
Wellington,the capital city,lies on the North Island
首都惠靈頓，位于北島嶼。
Other important cities are Auckland in the north
其他的重要城市有北部奧克蘭
Christchurch on the South Island and Queenstown,further to the south.
南部克賴斯物徹奇和南方遙遠的昆士城。
New Zealand has a mild sea climate,while the north is subtropical.
新西蘭是溫和的海洋性氣候，北部是亞熱帶氣候
It rains quite a lot.The warmest months are December to February.
它是多雨的。最暖和的月份是十二月到二月。
The coldest months are June to August.
最冷的月份是六月到八月。
The ocean and seas surrounding the islands are deep blue
環(huán)繞島嶼的大洋大海碧藍清澈。
and many of New Zealand's cities lie on a bay
新西蘭的許多城市位于海灣
and have a natural deep harbour
擁有天然的深水港口。
The sand beaches in New Zealand are also very clean.
新西蘭的海灘也是非常干凈的。
New Zealand has a very beautiful natural landscape
該國山青水秀。風景如畫
with green hills and mountains.
有綠色的山丘、山脈。
Some of the mountains are dead volcanoes.
有些死的火山
The North Island is famous for an area of hot springs,
北島是著名的溫泉勝地。
some of which throw hot water high into the air.
有些溫泉的熱水能高高地噴向半空。
Some of this heat near the earth's surface is used to make electricity.
靠近地球的表面一些熱被用作電。
There are many plants and animals that only live in New Zealand.
有許多植物和動物只在新西蘭生長。
The most famous animal is a little bird that cannot fly.
這最有名的動物是不會飛的小鳥。
It is called a kiwi and it is New Zealand's national bird
它被叫做幾維鳥，是新西蘭的國鳥。
The Maori were the earliest people to come to New Zealand.
毛利人是最早來到新西蘭的人。
When they discovered it about 1,000 years ago,
大約1，000年前他們發(fā)現(xiàn)了這個地方的時候，
they called it Aotearoa,which means"Land of the long white cloud".
他們稱它為奧蒂蜀，意思是"長白云之鄉(xiāng)。
"The Maori came from the island of Polynesia in the Pacific.
毛利人來自太平洋的波利尼西亞島嶼。
It is some 3,500 kilometres from Polynesia to New Zealand
從波利尼西亞到新西蘭大約有3500公里，
which they travelled in narrow boats.
他們是乘著狹窄的木船過來的。
They brought dogs,rats and plants with them
他們帶來狗，鼠和植物，
and settled mainly on the North Island where the weather was warmer.
主要定居在氣候較為溫暖的北島。
Around 1421
大約1421年，
Chinese sailors discovered the islands onone of their voyages around the world.
中國的海員發(fā)現(xiàn)了這些島嶼全球航行隊其中
The Dutchman Abel Tasman named the islands New Zealand in 1642.
1642年荷蘭人亞伯。塔斯曼把這些島嶼命名為新西蘭。
More than 120 years later,
再過 125 年之后，
Captain James Cook took possession of the island in 1769
船長詹姆斯。庫克于1769年占領了該島。
and from that time British people started to settle in New Zealand.
從那時起，英國人開始陸續(xù)在新西蘭定居下來。
By 1840 about 2,000 Europeans,mainly British,
到1840年，大約2000名歐洲人，主要是英國人，
had come to settle in New Zealand
來到新西蘭定居，
and the Maori signed an agreement with these settlers.
毛利人與他們簽訂了一份協(xié)議。
That day is still celebrated as a national holiday.
至今，那一天仍然作為國家定假日來慶祝。
It is every year on the sixth of February
它是每年2月的第6天。
Today there are still many people in New Zealand who call England
今天，在新西蘭，仍有許多人把英國叫做自己的
"the home country ",although it is a place where most of them have never been.
"祖國"，盡管那是一個他們大多數(shù)人從未到過的地方。
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