他之所以无法授课，是因其正兼着社会分析局的顾问。这是一个由32个成员组成的半官方组织，直接对首相负责。
He could not teach because he was on secondment to the Council for the Analysis of Society, a 32-member quango reporting to the prime minister.
一则重要消息称，今年六月天潜在然气委员会(一个半官方组织)修改了对美国天然气储量的估值，将该值在06年(估值)的水平上提高了39%。
The big news is that in June the Potential gas Committee, a semi-official body, revised its estimates of America's gas reserves, raising them 39% above its assessment in 2006.
这是一个典型的半官方不透明组织。
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