halfway house

美 [ˈhæfweɪ haʊs]英 [ˈhɑːfweɪ haʊs]
  • n.重返社会训练所,中途之家(为出狱者及离院病人而设);(两种迥然不同事物特征的)折中,妥协

复数: halfway houses

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noun

1

(两种迥然不同事物特征的)折中,妥协
something that combines the features of two very different things

2

重返社会训练所,中途之家(为出狱者及离院病人而设)
a place where prisoners, mental patients, etc. can stay for a short time after leaving a prison or hospital, before they start to live on their own again

halfway house

频次

  • 1
    N-SING 折中办法;妥协方案;介乎两者之间的事物
    A half-way house is an arrangement or thing that has some of the qualities of two different things.

    A halfway house between the theatre and cinema is possible. Olivier created one in his imaginative 'Henry V' in 1945.

    想找一种介乎戏剧和电影之间的艺术形式是可能的。奥利弗在1945年创作的富于想象力的《亨利五世》即是这样一部作品。

  • 2
    N-COUNT (为出狱者、离院精神病人或已戒毒者设立的)过渡教习所,重返社会训练所
    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 hospital.

  1. A halfway house between the theatre and cinema is possible . Olivier created one in his imaginative ' Henry V ' in 1945 .

    想找一种介乎戏剧和电影之间的艺术形式是可能的。奥利弗在1945年创作的富于想象力的《亨利五世》即是这样一部作品。

  2. My plan is ... to get out of this halfway house .

    我的计划是…离开这个小旅馆

  3. Won 't even let me leave the halfway house .

    竟然不许我离开房子半步。

  4. But today 's halfway house is not all that bad .

    “半路国企化”的公司发展地也不错。

  5. Currency union without political union is an unstable halfway house .

    没有政治联盟,货币联盟只是一个晃晃悠悠、不伦不类的机构。

  6. Now I 'm thinking it could be put to better use as a halfway house .

    现在我觉得它更适合被当做度假处

  7. Yet the current halfway house provides a bad advertisement for free immigration .

    不过目前这种行至中途的状态为自由移民提供了一个糟糕的宣传。

  8. It 's a halfway house , it 's not a home .

    那不是几家,只是个路边歇脚的小店。

  9. Amelia came to see me at the halfway house today .

    艾米丽娅今天来旅馆看我了

  10. Britain is in some ways a halfway house between America and the rest of Europe .

    “中转站”有种交通枢纽的意思,可否改为:英国像是站在美国和欧洲的中点上?

  11. A halfway house is a place aimed at helping former prisoners turn over a new leaf .

    中途之家旨在帮助曾经坐过牢的人改过自新。

  12. You can be the one thing or the other , but I will be no party to halfway house .

    你爱怎样就怎样,但我决不参预这种妥协。

  13. I hate visiting him at the halfway house .

    我不喜欢去那个小旅馆里探望他

  14. Atypical hyperplasia is a concept of pathology , a halfway house between the innocent and malignant change .

    非典型增生是一个病理学上的概念,是从良性改变到恶性改变的中间站,是由量变到质变的关键点。

  15. His Poppa sent it to me at a halfway house .

    他的大伯在一个中途客栈寄给我的。

  16. Adult prisoners released under the pre-release employment scheme are housed in a halfway house .

    按照释前就业计划获释的成年男犯,均获安排在中途宿舍居住。

  17. Still , the deal , with its convoluted cross-shareholdings , is clearly a halfway house .

    不过,这桩错综复杂的交叉持股交易显然只是权宜之计。

  18. 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。

  19. It seemed more of a defensive measure by Sony or a halfway house to integrating such a unit into a set .

    这似乎更像是索尼的一项防御措施,或是将该装置集成在电视机上的过渡产品。

  20. Well , most Christians believed you slept somewhere , or maybe your soul , your spirit , would go to some kind halfway house .

    大部分基督徒相信,你在某个地方睡觉,或者你的灵魂,会去到一个中途站。

  21. Paul : These men have volunteered to get my halfway house ready . Most of them live in a dreadful facility on .

    保罗:这些人是主动来帮我筹备中转屋的,他们大多数人住在贫民窟,设施很糟糕。

  22. The Canadian clarity act , passed in 2000 , was designed to outlaw the confusion caused by a halfway house kind of question .

    加拿大在2000年通过的《清晰法》(clarityact),旨在杜绝由半吊子问题导致的混乱。

  23. 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!