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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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； - They equated socialism with the welfare state.
他们把社会主义与福利国家相提并论。 - On Welfare State Policy of Attlee Government in Britain
试论英国艾德礼政府的福利国家政策 - 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。