welfare state
英 [ˌwelfeə ˈsteɪt]
美 [ˌwelfer ˈsteɪt]
n. 福利制度(由政府向有需要的人提供各种免费服务，如医疗、失业救济金、对老人的照顾等); 福利国家
Collins.1
牛津词典
noun
- 福利制度（由政府向有需要的人提供各种免费服务，如医疗、失业救济金、对老人的照顾等）
a system by which the government provides a range of free services to people who need them, for example medical care, money for people without work, care for old people, etc. - 福利国家
a country that has such a system
柯林斯词典
- (英国等国的)福利国家(制度)
In Britain and some other countries, thewelfare stateis a system in which the government provides free social services such as health and education and gives money to people when they are unable to work, for example because they are old, unemployed, or sick.
英英释义
noun
- a government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc.
双语例句
- The American dream and the European welfare state are bending to the competitive winds of globalisation.
美国梦和欧洲福利国家正向全球化的竞争潮流俯首称臣。 - Yet this change also threatens to reshape the German welfare state and undermine social cohesion.
然而，这种变化也有可能重塑德国的福利状况，并削弱社会凝聚力。 - The reigning ideology favored more government intervention into the economy and an expanding welfare state.
当时的执政理念倾向于让政府更多地干预经济并扩大国家福利。 - The welfare state has invested the artist with no official'social duty '.
福利国家不授予艺术家正式的“社会职责”。 - I believe that the Government's general aim is to whittle away the Welfare State
我认为政府总的目的是要削弱福利国家体制。 - They've been accused of dismantling the welfare state.
他们被控破坏了这个福利国家。 - In the long run, debt sustainability may require a fundamental review of the welfare state.
长期而言，债务可持续性可能意味着需要对“福利国家”进行根本性评估。 - As the welfare state started to provide old-age pensions, universal education, free healthcare and unemployment benefits, there was less need for charity.
因为福利国家开始提供养老金、全民教育、免费保健以及失业津贴，对慈善团体的需求也就减少了。 - Hobhouse had already adumbrated the idea of a welfare state.
霍布豪斯已经简略地介绍了福利国家这一概念。 - Unemployment places a heavy burden on the welfare state.
失业给福利国家增加了沉重的负担。