quango
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈkwæŋ.ɡəʊ]
- 美式音标 [ˈkwæŋ.ɡoʊ]
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基本解释
- n.半独立国家的政府组织; 半官方机构
英汉例句
- But transparency will make much more difference than yet another quango.
但是透明化比设立又一个半官方委员会更能起到立竿见影的效果。 - However, the quango has been criticised for being too close to government.
然而，这个政府的特殊法人被批评太过亲近政府。 - And history suggests that quango culls are more for talking about than carrying out anyway.
历史也证明，精简准非政府组织只是口头工作而已。 - The Low Pay Commission, the quango which sets the floor wage, contests this notion, but has been raising it at a more moderate pace in the past couple of years.
设定最低工资的半官方机构低收入委员会对此观点提出质疑，但是在过去的几年里讲最低工资的上涨幅度放慢了一些。 - And when the problem, whatever it is, is yesterday's news, the quango remains, for fear that abolishing it would reanimate the issue, or provoke claims of heartlessness.
尽管事情已经过去了，但是准非政府组织担心，一旦废除这个办公室，又会引起争吵。
英英字典
- an organization that is established by a government to consider a subject of public importance, but is independent from the government