halfway house
柯林斯詞典
1. N-COUNT A halfway house is a home for people such as former prisoners, mental patients, or drug addicts who can stay there for a limited period of time to get used to life outside prison or a hospital. (爲出獄者、出院精神病人或已戒毒者重廻社會所設(shè)立的)過渡住所
2. N-SING A halfway house is an arrangement or thing that has some of the qualities of two different things. 折中方法; 介乎兩者之間的事物
...a halfway house between traditional and third-generation cellular networks. ...介於傳統(tǒng)和3G網(wǎng)絡(luò)之間的一種網(wǎng)絡(luò)。
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halfway house (halfway houses)
劍橋詞典
- [ 可數(shù)名詞：有複數(shù)形式的名詞 ]
a place where prisoners or people with mental health problems can stay after they leave prison or hospital and before they start to live on their own
（爲犯人或精神病人重返社會設(shè)立的）過渡教習所，重返社會訓練所
[ 可數(shù)名詞：有複數(shù)形式的名詞 通常作爲單數(shù)使用的名詞 ]
something that combines particular features of two other things, especially in order to try to please people who do not like the two things on their own
折中辦法，妥協(xié)方案
The new proposals are a halfway house between the original treaty and the revised version . 新提案是原始協(xié)議和脩改後的協(xié)議的折中。 返回 halfway house