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
a cappella singings
accident type
active service
akihiko
allyl diglycocarbonate
almond moths
anisotropic hypofine coupling constant
Baravukha
behavioral criteria
box body dump car
cadastral file
car licence
charge correlator
chestnutty
cobalt carbonate
collateralizes
compressed air source unit
construction process
coordinated inspection visit
cutting electrode holder
decorate ... with
decryption algorithm
di-active amyl succinate
disennobling
E-Cadherins
edifier
equilibrium phase
extended binary-coded decimal interchange code
Federation of British Industries
finback whale
finger rest
flagrable
fly at sb's throat
form as content
fruit-picking
gayl
gold ingot
goods consigned
guide disc
heat ray
in contempt of danger
in their shoes
kadin
kand
Krupp, Alfred
large-panel construction
large-scale manufacturing
last number
loan car
lock pawl
loss due to concrete shrinkage
magnetic basement
marcopulos
matzo balls
metaphase arrest
micro-Omega
Mirandaing
moral lesson
mormyrocerebellum
multivariate negative hypergeometric distribution
muraqabah
nercoes
nitches
nut problem
open the door to sth
open to
overwide
oxide core
pen-writing oscillograph
personal defense weapon
plaintive
plate fin
podocarpus macrophyllus var maki(sieb.)endl.
potted orchid
quaser
R center
reconcele
requirers
rfc 822
Ruffle a few feathers
Schaan
shorthairs
South Williamson
spiraled duct
split rails
stable push
stalactitic
stroke regulating screw
third-last
Tirstrup
touch football
toxin-antitoxin reaction
trammelling
transformed curve
transient characteristic
transverse lines
tubeworms
unattractiveness
virgin bull
visualized model
wine-jar
Wisconsin protocol