单词盒子

halfway house

H 开头单词

音标发音

  • 英式音标 [ˌhɑːf.weɪ ˈhaʊs]
  • 美式音标 [ˌhæf.weɪ ˈhaʊs]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • n. 折中，妥协；（出狱者、离院病人的）过渡教习所；中途地点；中途歇脚的客栈；兼有两者性质的东西

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英汉例句

    双语例句

  • 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。
  • After he got out of prison, Roger served six months in a halfway house in Texas, and then moved to north Arkansas, where he worked for a friend of ours in a quick-stop service station.
    罗杰出狱之后，在德克萨斯州的一家过渡教习所待了六个月，他随后搬去了阿肯色州北部，在我们的一个朋友开的一家中途加油站工作。
  • So, in a paper in this week’s Science Translational Medicine, Peter Turnbaugh of the Washington University School of Medicine, in St Louis, and his colleagues, describe a halfway house.
    位于圣路易斯华盛顿大学医学部的彼得特恩伯和他的同僚在本周的科学医学化杂志发表了一篇论文，其描述了一个中途之家。

    • 权威例句

  • Last week, Andrew Fastow was released from federal prison to a halfway house.
    FORBES: The Supreme Court Takes Action on Prison Overcrowding -- Felons Go Home!
  • Ten years ago, he told the judge, he'd done a year's time in a halfway house.
    NPR: Libby Jury Selection Includes Some Surprises
  • America is the only rich country that makes use of this halfway house of a system.
    ECONOMIST: Business is right to be scared by the costs of Obamacare

词组短语

    短语

  • Halfway guest house 中途客栈
  • halfway house supervisor 中途之家的主管
  • Halfway House Hotel 中途之家酒店
  • halfway house worker 中途之家工人
  • On the halfway house 夕阳照着半边房子

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • 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

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • 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.
  • A halfway house is an arrangement or thing that has some of the qualities of two different things.

专业释义

    心理学

  • 路程之中途地点；小客栈