halfway house
折中
常用释义
英式发音
美式发音
基本释义
- 中途之家：指囚犯或精神健康问题患者在出狱或出院后，在开始独立生活之前可以居住的地方。
- 折中之物：指将两个不同事物的特点结合起来，尤其是为了取悦那些不喜欢这两个事物的人。
例句
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1·Jan was only a few months away from release to a halfway house.简还差几个月就要刑满释放到过渡教习所。
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2·Britain is in some ways a halfway house between America and the rest of Europe.英国在某些问题上站在美国和欧洲其他国家的中点上。
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3·America is the only rich country that makes use of this halfway house of a system.美国是唯一利用制度庇护的国家。
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4·It's like a halfway house - and what's more it comes with yet more branding confusion.就好像一个半途中的房子——带来的只是更多的品牌混乱。
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5·For him there was never a halfway house between beginning a business and succeeding in it.对于他来说，在创业和成功二者之间从来就没有一个中间站。
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6·Nick's mom has turned her home into a halfway house for down-and-out relatives and stray dogs.尼克的妈妈把她的家变成了收留落难亲属和流浪狗的收容所。
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7·I helped him find refuge in a halfway house and in court helped him recover his unpaid wages.我于是帮助他先在一间还说得过去的住所出安身，并且在法庭上帮助他争取到了雇主拖欠他的工资。
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8·The only chance they'll ever have is a halfway house, that'll help them get their feet under them again.过渡教习所帮助他们重新做人，这是他们唯一的机会。
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9·Alas, if Mr Cameron and colleagues think the ASA model offers a happy halfway house between compulsion and self-regulation, they may not be right.但如果卡梅伦和他的同僚认为美国标准协会那套监管模式能在国家监管和自我监管之间提供一个皆大欢喜的折中方案的话，那么他们就错了。
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10·Of some things we cannot be dogmatic; but we know this for sure-God has no halfway house between heaven and hell where he takes us to fumigate us!有些事情不能被教条化的，但是我们很清楚的知道——在天堂与地狱之间，没有神为我们准备的用烟熏消毒的中间地带！
同义词
n.
路程之中途地点；小客栈