ombudsman

英 ['?mb?dzm?n] 美['ɑmb?dzm?n]

低頻詞暢通詞匯

復數:?ombudsmen;

ombudsman 監察御史，政府巡查員

來自瑞典語ombudsman,使命專員，來自om-,在周圍，縮寫自ambi-,詞源同ambassador（大使）,-bud,命令，召喚，詞源同bid,man,人。原指中央政府或君主派到地方進行巡視的官員，類似于中國古代的監察御史，現用于指政府巡查員。

ombudsman: ombudsman: [20] The word ombudsman, denoting an ‘investigator of public complaints’, was introduced into English from Swedish, and was first used as a quasi-official term in the 1960s: New Zealand was the first Englishspeaking country to introduce such a post, in 1962, and Britain followed four years later. The Swedish word is a descendant of Old Norse umbothsmathr, literally ‘administration-man’; and umboth was originally a compound of um ‘about’ and both ‘command’ (a relative of English bid).
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ombudsman (n.): 1959, from Swedish ombudsman, literally "commission man" (specifically in reference to the office of justitieombudsmannen, which hears and investigates complaints by individuals against abuses of the state); cognate with Old Norse umboesmaer, from umboe "commission" (from um- "around," see ambi-, + boe "command," see bid (v.)) + maer "man" (see man (n.)).

1. If the bank is unhelpful take it up with the Ombudsman.: 銀行要是不肯幫忙，就去找申訴專員。

2. The leaflet explains how to complain to the banking ombudsman.: 這份傳單介紹了如何向銀行意見調查官投訴。

4. If a citizen's complaint is justified, the Ombudsman will act on his behalf.: 如果公民的意見正確, 司法特派員便為他伸張正義.

5. There is nothing secretive about the Ombudsman's work, for his correspondence is open to public inspection.: 特派員的工作沒有什么秘密可言, 因為他的來往書信可供公眾審查.