When state benefit withdrawn, he has no way to support himself.
国家救济补贴落空,他无法过活。
BBC地道英语
Often it's used very negatively to describe people who live off state benefits.
通常来说这个词有消极意义,用来形容那些依赖政府救济过活的人。
NPR音讯 2014年1月合集
The government program that helps the unemployed after their state benefit ran out is over.
这项政府项目旨在失业者用完政府补助金后继续对他们提供帮助,现在这个项目到期了。
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He can't figure out why, since no one at the inundated state benefits office picks up the phone.
他不明白其原因,因为不胜负荷的州福利办公室没有人接听电话。
BBC 听力 2016年6月合集
His new film is about a carpenter in northeast England struggling to retain his state benefits. Vincent Doyle reports.
本片讲述的是英格兰东北部一木匠申请社会救济的故事。请听文森·道尔的报道。
剑桥雅思阅读
Economic opportunities are scarce, and for many people state benefits are their only income.
经济机会少得可怜,对很多人来说政府的福利是他们唯一的收入。
历年英语专业四级阅读真题
In Belgium, immigrants who lose jobs can receive almost two-thirds of their most recent wage in state benefits, which must make the hunt for a new job less urgent.
As governments exerted greater control, people got more state benefits from their taxes, and more rights, such as voting, which engendered a feeling of ownership over the state. It became their nation.
Social security is a concept enshrined in Article 22 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states:
In simple terms, the signatories agree that society in which a person lives should help them to develop and to make the most of all the advantages (culture, work, social welfare) which are offered to them in the country.