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

经济

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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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Unemployment places a heavy burden on the welfare state.
  失业给福利国家增加了沉重的负担。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• In the developed nations, the welfare state needs to support workers who bear the brunt of the adjustment, using progressive taxation and retraining initiatives.
  在发达国家，福利国家需要采用累进税制，并提供再培训计划，为受到调整冲击的工人提供支持。
• 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。
• 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。