新西兰英语 602 Manukau Rail Station

 　　The Auckland mayor¹, Len Brown, opened the new Manukau rail station today. It is the first new railway line to be built in 82 years. It will link Manukau city centre with the southern rail line at Middlemore and continue to Auckland city. The trip into the city will take 40 minutes instead of 80 minutes by bus.

　　The new station is underground. Above will be the campus² of the Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT). This should be finished next year. MIT, Auckland Transport and Auckland Council³ all shared the costs. MIT hopes that travellers will see students on the trains and on the campus and this will encourage other people to become students.

　　Saturday 14th will be a community day for local people to see the new station. The first trains will start on April 15th. There will be three trains an hour during peak times when people are going to work in the morning and coming home in the evening. At other times, trains will run once every hour.

　　This is the second biggest train station in Auckland.

　　Click on this picture to see what the station will look like when finished.

　　Grammar

　　It is possible to say biggest, second biggest, third biggest and so on. Try this with other superlative adjectives⁴ e.g. fastest, poorest, busiest, smallest, highest, coldest

1 mayor   

n.市长

参考例句：

• The new mayor said he would clean the city up.新市长说，他要整顿本市。
• The mayor hurried into his office,brushing off the reporters.市长赶快走进办公室，拒不接见记者。

2 campus   

n.大学校园，学校校园；大学　

参考例句：

• They spoke of the old days on the campus.他们谈起昔日的校园生活。
• The campus covers an area of twenty square kilometres.这个校园占地二十平方公里。

3 council   

n.理事会，委员会，议事机构

参考例句：

• The town council passed a law forbidding the distribution of handbills.市议会通过法律，禁止散发传单。
• The city council has declared for improving the public bus system.市议会宣布同意改进公共汽车系统。

4 adjectives   

n.形容词( adjective的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• We can form nouns from adjectives. 我们可以用形容词来构成名词。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Attributive adjectives precede the noun. 定语形容词位于名词前。 来自《简明英汉词典》