Hello. The programme you're about to listen to was originally最初 broadcast广播 in May 2010 on the BBC Learning English website. We hope you enjoy it. You're listening to Newswords. BBC journalist记者 Claire Arthurs talks about words and phrases commonly普通地 used in news reports. Today's word Watchdog. Do you or your neighbours have a dog which keeps guard over the house, barking to alert提醒 you when something is wrong? It's a guard dog or a watchdog, watching for signs that things are not what they should be.
So too in the media, we talk about watchdogs. We're referring to organisations which keep watch over a particular industry工业 or sector部门. For example, a financial财政的 services authority当局 would watch for wrongdoing in the finance财政 business. The police complaints body would handle complaints against police.
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