新西兰英语 291 Queen’s Birthday Honours

　　Today, we learnt that one woman is now a Dame¹ and six men are Sir. Many other people will receive medals for community work. The award is not given for their paid job but for the voluntary work they have done. For more about the Honour awards, listen to March 8th 2009 and June 1st 2009
Dame June Jackson received her honour for many years of service to Maori, especially young Maori in prison.
Sir Richard Taylor is well known for Weta Workshops which made many characters for the Lord² of the Rings and other films by Peter Jackson. He likes to spend his spare time teaching³ young people to be creative.
Sir Peter Leith is well known because he owns the Mad Butcher chain of shops but he has also done a lot of voluntary work for Rugby League and many other organisations.
Sir Fred Allen was an All Black captain and coach and served in the Second World War.
Sir David Levene has done many things for the community including setting⁴ up a mentoring⁵ scheme for Year 12 and Year 13 school students to encourage them to aim for a university education. Sir John Williams is a judge but is also involved in community work. Sir Bruce Douglas has given money for equipment for Starship Hospital and for medical research.
Giving people honours or medals for their service is one way for the people of New Zealand to say “Thank you”.
Questions
Do you think that the government was right to bring back the titles of Dame and Sir?
How would you feel if you were suddenly called “Dame” somebody or “Sir” somebody? Would you feel embarrassed?
It is interesting that more men than women received the highest honour. Is there a reason for this?

1 dame   

n.女士

参考例句：

• The dame tell of her experience as a wife and mother.这位年长妇女讲了她作妻子和母亲的经验。
• If you stick around,you'll have to marry that dame.如果再逗留多一会，你就要跟那个夫人结婚。

2 lord   

n.上帝，主；主人，长官；君主，贵族

参考例句：

• I know the Lord will look after him.我知道上帝会眷顾他的。
• How good of the Lord not to level it beyond repair!上帝多么仁慈啊，竟没有让这所房子损毁得不可收拾！

3 teaching   

n.教学，执教，任教，讲授；(复数)教诲

参考例句：

• We all agree in adopting the new teaching method. 我们一致同意采取新的教学方法。
• He created a new system of teaching foreign languages.他创造了一种新的外语教学体系。

4 setting   

n.背景

参考例句：

• The play has its setting in Vienna.该剧以维也纳为背景。
• Where and when a story takes place is called the setting.故事发生的地点和时间称为故事背景。

5 mentoring   

n.mentoring是一种工作关系。mentor通常是处在比mentee更高工作职位上的有影响力的人。他/她有比‘mentee’更丰富的工作经验和知识，并用心支持mentee的职业（发展）。v.（无经验之人的）有经验可信赖的顾问( mentor的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• One of the most effective instruments for coaching and mentoring is the "role rehearsal" . 辅导和教学的最有效的手段之一是“角色排练。” 来自辞典例句
• Bell Canada called their mentoring system a buddy-buddy system. 加拿大贝尔公司称他们的训导系统是伙伴—伙伴系统。 来自互联网