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
- Britain is regarded as a welfare state.
英国被认为是福利制度的国家。 - 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”。 - And all this has been combined with a high level of social protection and a generous welfare state.
而且这一切还暴在政府提供高水平社会保障和丰厚福利的情况下出现的。 - 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？ - 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。 - Just like Sweden, Denmark is a Nordic welfare state with most of its services free to the citizens.
正如瑞典一样，丹麦也是一个北欧福利国家，其大部分服务都是免费提供给国民的。 - 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。 - 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。 - They equated socialism with the welfare state.
他们把社会主义与福利国家相提并论。 - Language aside, the history, structure and politics of each country's welfare state are different.
撇开语言不谈，各个国家福利制度的历史、体制和手段各不相同。