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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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”。 - 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。 - 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。 - They equated socialism with the welfare state.
他们把社会主义与福利国家相提并论。 - 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。 - A well-managed welfare state is not the enemy of globalization. Instead, some say it is the saviour.
一些人指出，管理良好的福利国家并不是全球化的死敌，而是全球化的救星。