新西兰英语 631 years of Korean and New Zealand Friendship

 　　In 1962, South Korea and New Zealand officially became friends. The two countries established diplomatic relations and in 1971, New Zealand established an embassy in Seoul. In fact, New Zealand supported South Korea during the Korean War in the 1950s by sending 6,000 soldiers to help fight. Forty-five New Zealand soldiers died during that war.

　　Auckland and Busan are sister cities. Christchurch and Songpa District of Seoul are also sister cities.

　　Korea is an important trading partner for New Zealand. We export logs, aluminium¹, beef, kiwi fruit, dairy products and seafood² to Korea. We import cars, electronic goods and machinery³ from Korea.

　　A number of Korean tourists visit New Zealand each year and many international students study here. Korean young people can apply for a working holiday visa in New Zealand and vice⁴ versa.

　　About 30,000 Koreans live here in New Zealand. Most of those are in Auckland.

　　This year, the two countries will celebrate 50 years of friendship in a number of ways including cooperation in making films. A group of talented Korean musicians and acrobatic dancers are giving a concert in Wellington on Friday. They have already performed in Auckland and Christchurch where they gave a wonderful performance.

　　Vocabulary

　　established diplomatic relations – the Prime Ministers visit each other, trade officials visit etc.

　　established an embassy – started an embassy

　　logs – trunks of trees

　　aluminium (Br Eng)- aluminum⁵ (Am Eng)

　　vice versa – the opposite i.e. New Zealand young people can apply for a working holiday visa in Korea

　　cooperation – work together

　　talented – clever, skilful

1 aluminium   

n.铝 (=aluminum)

参考例句：

• Aluminium looks heavy but actually it is very light.铝看起来很重，实际上却很轻。
• If necessary, we can use aluminium instead of steel.如果必要，我们可用铝代钢。

2 seafood   

n.海产食品，海味，海鲜

参考例句：

• There's an excellent seafood restaurant near here.离这儿不远有家非常不错的海鲜馆。
• Shrimps are a popular type of seafood.小虾是比较普遍的一种海味。

3 machinery   

n.(总称)机械，机器；机构

参考例句：

• Has the machinery been put up ready for the broadcast?广播器材安装完毕了吗？
• Machinery ought to be well maintained all the time.机器应该随时注意维护。

4 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

5 aluminum   

n.(aluminium)铝

参考例句：

• The aluminum sheets cannot be too much thicker than 0.04 inches.铝板厚度不能超过0.04英寸。
• During the launch phase,it would ride in a protective aluminum shell.在发射阶段，它盛在一只保护的铝壳里。