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

• 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。
• The welfare state was regarded as a kind of dividend from economic growth.
  福利国家被看作是额外享受经济的增长。
• 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。
• 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。
• The insurance industry sound development benefits economic growth and improves the social welfare state.
  保险业的健康发展有助于加快经济增长并改善社会福利状态；
• Britain is regarded as a welfare state.
  英国被认为是福利制度的国家。
• They equated socialism with the welfare state.
  他们把社会主义与福利国家相提并论。
• Unemployment places a heavy burden on the welfare state.
  失业给福利国家增加了沉重的负担。
• 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。