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 reigning ideology favored more government intervention into the economy and an expanding welfare state.
当时的执政理念倾向于让政府更多地干预经济并扩大国家福利。 - Migrant workers are not a drain on the welfare state and pay more in taxes than the value of public services they receive, a trade union study concludes today.
英国职工大会（tradesunioncongress）今日公布的一项调查显示，移民工人并非一个福利国家财富外流的渠道，他们缴纳的税收超过了自己获得公共服务的价值。 - 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。 - 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？ - They've been accused of dismantling the welfare state.
他们被控破坏了这个福利国家。 - Yet it was clear that an independent Scotland would struggle to sustain even its existing welfare state.
但很显然，独立的苏格兰甚至难以维持现有的福利国家制度。 - 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。 - Unemployment places a heavy burden on the welfare state.
失业给福利国家增加了沉重的负担。 - 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。 - 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。