时间:2019-02-17 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

   The Ombudsman, Beverley Wakeham, told a Parliamentary committee that her office has too much work and too few staff. She needs another $1m to employ extra staff and for general administration.


  The job of the Ombudsman office is to deal with complaints about government departments or organisations. The office now has 48 staff members and is expected to cope with a work load of 800 to 1000 complaints at any one time. Now they are having to cope with nearly double that number – at the moment they are dealing 1 with 1854 cases. They have 300 cases waiting but they do not have enough staff to deal with these cases. There are 270 complaints against EQC and CERA – both organizations responsible for the earthquake recovery in Christchurch.
  The word “ombudsman” is Swedish. New Zealand borrowed the idea of an ombudsman and the word from Sweden. We also have an ombudsman for Insurance and Security, and another for Banking 2. There is also a complaints commissioner 3, which is similar to an ombudsman, for Electricity and Gas.
  Vocabulary
  administration – office work
  deal with – manage, work on
  cope – manage successfully
  work load – how much work someone has to do
  Questions
  Does your country have an ombudsman or something similar? The International Ombudsman Institute has more than 20 member countries.
  Why is an ombudsman office important in a democracy?

n.经商方法,待人态度
  • This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
  • His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
n.银行业,银行学,金融业
  • John is launching his son on a career in banking.约翰打算让儿子在银行界谋一个新职位。
  • He possesses an extensive knowledge of banking.他具有广博的银行业务知识。
n.(政府厅、局、处等部门)专员,长官,委员
  • The commissioner has issued a warrant for her arrest.专员发出了对她的逮捕令。
  • He was tapped for police commissioner.他被任命为警务处长。
学英语单词
abbondanza
acceleration from rest
accidental resemblance
activator-dissociation system
aeacides
Alma Center
araucaria families
atmospheric-pressure counter
attached storage
average information matrix
bending length
boatswain's chair
charle's law
corrosive bittern brine
database indexed search
deteriorative change
dielectric drier
divcom
Dunaujvaros
electromagnetic starter
exogastric
exoperidium
external fixation of fracture
farceuses
filipe
flagellants
floating sleeve
foul-air flue
freelancers
ftn
Fūlādābād
goucher
hand sth round
hobits
hot secondary air
if i live to be a hundred
in stereo
in the schools
internal transference
lifespeed
limiting power
liquid-solid cyclone
low roller
Madeleine, Monts.de la
maholi
midget socket
minimum-delay coding
minispread
mode expander
modifier formula
network intrusion detection systems
non-reciprocal trade preference
Nordurandron
of fixation line
oil-bearing sand
Oxypinone
peachblow
phancifull
photo opportunist
piping bag
planetary spacecraft
potestatems
ppes
Primula sinuata
prober interface
qualitative description
quantized interval
quiet arc
rodnina
sampled data computer
scinaia pseudojaponica
scollon
secure against
self-incriminations
sensitizing dose
sound profile
stomias nebulosus
storage economy
stretchless
sun si-miao
syntaxical
systematic fashion information
tachyglossid
the cultivation of tress
the Sons of the Revolution
thorium halide
three graces
top-end
tunicae vagfnalis propria testis
turn of winding
Ubon Ratchathani, Changwat
unipoint
unstable frame
virtual channel link
watergas
Wawasee, L.
wedge dislocation
wing-tip
word load
yuen long
zilberstein