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
- On Welfare State Policy of Attlee Government in Britain
试论英国艾德礼政府的福利国家政策 - They've been accused of dismantling the welfare state.
他们被控破坏了这个福利国家。 - 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。 - 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。 - Of or relating to a welfare state.
福利国家的或者与福利国家相关的。 - While policies that raise unemployment are harmful to happiness under any plausible assumptions, there is no reason to abandon the welfare state's most important achievements: universal health insurance, state-funded education and security in old age.
尽管在各种看似合理的假设下，提高失业率的政策都对幸福是一种伤害，但我们也毫无理由放弃福利国家最重要的成就：普遍医疗保险、国家资助的教育以及老年保障。 - Unemployment places a heavy burden on the welfare state.
失业给福利国家增加了沉重的负担。 - They equated socialism with the welfare state.
他们把社会主义与福利国家相提并论。 - 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？ - 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。