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
- Do you think America's welfare state is adequate& or over-generous?
你认为美国的国家福利是否足够，还是过于慷慨了？ - In fact the increase reflects the higher cost of the welfare state at a time of economic suffering.
事实上这反映出，在经济困难时期福利国家成本的增加。 - Unemployment places a heavy burden on the welfare state.
失业给福利国家增加了沉重的负担。 - 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。 - 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。 - Yet it was clear that an independent Scotland would struggle to sustain even its existing welfare state.
但很显然，独立的苏格兰甚至难以维持现有的福利国家制度。 - Britain is regarded as a welfare state.
英国被认为是福利制度的国家。 - Politically, Qatar is evolving from a traditional society into a modern welfare state.
政治上，卡塔尔从传统社会演化成为一种现代的福利国家。 - The welfare state has run up against a brick wall of economic reality and fiscal book-keeping.
现在，福利国家已经撞上由经济现实和财政状况筑起的南墙。 - They've been accused of dismantling the welfare state.
他们被控破坏了这个福利国家。