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

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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 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；
• 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”。
• 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？
• As the welfare state started to provide old-age pensions, universal education, free healthcare and unemployment benefits, there was less need for charity.
  因为福利国家开始提供养老金、全民教育、免费保健以及失业津贴，对慈善团体的需求也就减少了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The supposed benefits of a progressive welfare state.
  进步福利国家的所谓“福利”。
• They equated socialism with the welfare state.
  他们把社会主义与福利国家相提并论。