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

• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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
• 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。
• In the long run, debt sustainability may require a fundamental review of the welfare state.
  长期而言，债务可持续性可能意味着需要对“福利国家”进行根本性评估。
• 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。
• 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。