| 释义 |
halfway house
noun
countable usually singular
■something which 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 折衷办法，妥协方案•The new proposals are a halfway house between the original treaty and the British government's revised version.新提案是原始协定和英国政府修改后的协定的折衷。 countable
■a place where prisoners or people with mental health problems 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）中途宿舍，过度教习所，重返社会训练所 |