Shock reverberated(回荡；波及) through England’s councils last week. “Beggars belief(难以置信)!” “Shambolic(混乱不堪的)!” council leaders protested to the Local Government Information Unit (LGIU), which says: “We’ve never before heard such expletives(脏话；咒骂语). They’re apoplectic(怒不可遏的), incandescent(火冒三丈的).” And they have every right to be.
上周，震惊的情绪在英格兰各地议会中回荡。“难以置信！”“混乱不堪！”议会领袖们向地方政府信息单位（LGIU）抗议，该机构表示：“我们从未听过如此粗鲁的言辞。他们怒不可遏，火冒三丈。”他们完全有理由如此愤怒。
The government has slammed the brakes on(紧急叫停) its unexpected reorganisation of local councils. This almost certainly ends the one-size-fits-all(一刀切的), politically damaging remapping(重新划分) of England’s councils, which was never forewarned(预先告知) in Labour’s manifesto(竞选宣言).
政府已紧急叫停其出人意料的地方议会重组计划。这几乎可以肯定地终结了那项“一刀切”、在政治上极具破坏性的英格兰议会重划方案——该方案从未在工党竞选宣言中提前告知。
Councils hired extra staff to manage gigantic(巨大的) mergers and changes on the running of social care, waste collection, libraries, special educational needs(特殊教育需求), children in care(受照护儿童), roads and parks – absolutely everything sliced and diced(切分重组), with hundreds of thousands moving jobs under new brass plates(在新招牌下).
各议会纷纷增聘人手，以应对大规模合并以及社会关怀、垃圾收集、图书馆、特殊教育需求、受照护儿童、道路和公园等各项事务运营方式的改变——所有事务都被切分重组，数十万人将在新的招牌下调动岗位。