halfway house

短语

n. 两地间中途歇脚的小客栈, 路程之中途地点

发音

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词形变化

halfway houses 复数 halfway houses

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A temporary residence for those who have left prison, residential drug rehabilitation, or the like, designed to ease them back into society.

    过渡住所

  2. 2.

    A halfway point towards achieving a goal.

    比喻
  3. 3.

    An inn reached about midway through a journey.

  4. 4.

    Any place of calm and respite reached during a journey.

    比喻

词源

The term in its original sense (the literal one) was clearly already a well-established term when Samuel Pepys mentioned a prominent example in his diary in 1662.

来源：wiktionary