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
- 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。 - They've been accused of dismantling the welfare state.
他们被控破坏了这个福利国家。 - The supposed benefits of a progressive welfare state.
进步福利国家的所谓“福利”。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Of or relating to a welfare state.
福利国家的或者与福利国家相关的。 - 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。 - 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。 - France and Germany, classic examples of the social insurance welfare state that draws on employer and employee contributions, have seen moves away from that model.
法国和德国这两个典型的利用雇主和雇员分担费用的社会保险福利制度的国家已经偏离了原有模式。