时间:2019-01-27 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

  The New Zealand Immigration Service has been in the news recently, for all the wrong reasons. The head of the service, Mary Anne Thompson, resigned last week after it was found that she did not have a PhD after all. Before this job with Immigration, she had worked in Treasury 1 and in the Prime Minister’s department. On her CV, she wrote that she had a PhD from the London School of Economics, and nobody checked it. Now there is a police inquiry 2 into her qualifications to see if she gave false information.

She was also in trouble because 3 of her relatives from the Pacific island of Kiribati were given permanent residence in New Zealand after the quota 3 was already filled. Some of the staff in the Immigration Service say that Mary Anne Thompson told them to give these people visas. The staff said they were not happy about doing this. There is now an inquiry to look into this matter.

Another problem is in the Pacific Division of Immigration. This is a part of Immigration that was set up by Mary Anne Thompson, to deal with Pacific Islanders coming here. New Zealand has a special relationship with Samoa because our country controlled Samoa after World War 1, until 1962. We have a quota to allow more than 1,000 Samoans to immigrate 4 to New Zealand each year but many more want to come. There are smaller quotas 5 for other Pacific countries. As well as immigration, many Pacific Islanders are coming to New Zealand for shorter periods to pick fruit and work in the wine industry. One immigration agent said he was worried about the possibility of bribery 6, that people could pay money to get a visa illegally. The Labour Department is going to have an inquiry to make sure there is no corruption 7 in the Pacific Division of Immigration.

New Zealand, Denmark and Finland are 1st equal in the world for being free from corruption. Our world reputation is very important to us. Today, the Prime Minister, Helen Clark, said there will be another inquiry into the New Zealand Immigration Service. The Auditor-General, Kevin Brady, will hold an independent inquiry. He is not a friend of the Labour government or any other political party.



n.宝库;国库,金库;文库
  • The Treasury was opposed in principle to the proposals.财政部原则上反对这些提案。
  • This book is a treasury of useful information.这本书是有价值的信息宝库。
n.打听,询问,调查,查问
  • Many parents have been pressing for an inquiry into the problem.许多家长迫切要求调查这个问题。
  • The field of inquiry has narrowed down to five persons.调查的范围已经缩小到只剩5个人了。
n.(生产、进出口等的)配额,(移民的)限额
  • A restricted import quota was set for meat products.肉类产品设定了进口配额。
  • He overfulfilled his production quota for two months running.他一连两个月超额完成生产指标。
v.(从外国)移来,移居入境
  • 10,000 people are expected to immigrate in the next two years.接下来的两年里预计有10,000人会移民至此。
  • Only few plants can immigrate to the island.只有很少的植物能够移植到这座岛上。
(正式限定的)定量( quota的名词复数 ); 定额; 指标; 摊派
  • In fulfilling the production quotas, John made rings round all his fellow workers. 约翰完成生产定额大大超过他的同事们。
  • Quotas of the means of production are allocated by the higher administrative bodies to the lower ones. 物资指标按隶属关系分配。
n.贿络行为,行贿,受贿
  • FBI found out that the senator committed bribery.美国联邦调查局查明这个参议员有受贿行为。
  • He was charged with bribery.他被指控受贿。
n.腐败,堕落,贪污
  • The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
  • The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
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acanthoidine
adjacent line
air-breather
ambiguohypoglossal
avoking
bestower
buffer reagent
buy-and-holds
catanator
caveling
chlordan
cost-reimbursement
de-activation
Deinotherioidea
democratic values
desoxypyridoxine
dexamethasones
diameter of working disk
diatonic auxiliary note
discretamine
domain magnetization
double-layer fluorescent screen
dropper plate of free grain
Drusze
dynamicize
editon
elbow equivalent
electrode-travel motor
embraced
endomycopsis hordel
Engler viscosimeter
fairwells
fang-likest
fawns on
federal radio act 1927
fling oneself into the breach
fluoroolefin
free-taking
general staff
grinding media charge
hachi
hard-fightings
Hatsukaichi
HRST
ignition of precipitate
inverse mercator
iodine trap
jM-factor
karhunen loeve transform (klt)
kemerer
laughing-eyed
liege poustie
light-alloy armo(u)r
Longué-Jumelles
lophocoronids
Louis Henri
market chaotic
multistage linear amplifier
Narfeyri
Ngoso
octuplex
optical fiber ribbons
organised-crimes
pass in a program
pelviroentgenography
photoelectrocatalytic reactor
phrenemphraxis
polar moments of inertia
portcullised
practice range
prevelar
primordisl endoderm cells
reave
Rectocillin
residual concentration
Riemann upper integral
rifle shot
safo
saltations
screw-tap
sebiferic acid
second anchor
short-lived asset
sleight-of-hand
sniol
sound-barriers
speed change control
stalk extractor
structurality
Tharrawaw
thirst bucket
thoughted
three-dimensional imaging
throw dust in someone's eyes
transnationally
unwed mother
vel non
voiced sounds
votes down
well-customed
wharfies
wrecking