halfway house
柯林斯词典
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. (为出狱者、出院精神病人或已戒毒者重回社会所设立的)过渡住所
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; 介乎两者之间的事物
...a halfway house between traditional and third-generation cellular networks. ...介于传统和3G网络之间的一种网络。
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halfway house (halfway houses)
剑桥词典
- [ 可数名词：有复数形式的名词 ]
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
（为犯人或精神病人重返社会设立的）过渡教习所，重返社会训练所
[ 可数名词：有复数形式的名词 通常作为单数使用的名词 ]
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
折中办法，妥协方案
The new proposals are a halfway house between the original treaty and the revised version . 新提案是原始协议和修改后的协议的折中。 返回 halfway house