The welfare state, income tax, nationalisation, all grew out of conflict and crisis.

福利国家、所得税、国有化，都是在冲突和危机中产生的。

You can inject market mechanisms into the welfare state to sharpen its performance.

事实就是事实，因为它就摆在那里。

His position is not original, although he has made the argument about immigration undermining the welfare state his own.

他的思想不过是把以前的争论翻新了一遍，尽管确实是他提出了移民有损福利国家的理论。

The N.H.S., the welfare state, teachers and judges, the courts.

NHS、福利国家、教师和法官、法院。

But this necessary expansion of the welfare state is being paid for in the wrong way.

但是这种必要的福利国家扩张是以错误的方式付出代价的。

In order to qualify for the services of the welfare state, you need a personal identification number. And this is getting increasingly difficult to obtain.

为了有资格享受福利国家的服务，你需要一个个人识别码，这个码越来越难获得。

For all her talk about reforming the welfare state, the public sector consumed almost the same proportion of GDP when she left office as when she came to it.

但是，在她离任时，公共开支在GDP中的比例同她执政之初相比并没有出现增长。

Since the emergence of the welfare state, adults who want to work have generally found themselves in one of two positions: earning a wage from their job or receiving unemployment benefits.

自从福利国家出现以来，想要工作的成年人通常会发现自己面临以下两种处境：工作赚取收入或者领取失业救济金。

The Liberal governments under Campbell-Bannerman and Herbert Asquith embarked on a series of reforms which increased state support for the sick and elderly and laid the foundations for the welfare state.

坎贝尔-班纳曼和赫伯特·阿斯奎斯领导下的自由党政府开展了一系列改革，增加了国家对病人和老年人的支持，并为福利国家奠定了基础。

When a country has lots of immigrants, its residents turn against the welfare state: people are less inclined to contribute money to a system that seems to benefit people who do not look like them.

一个国家移民过多，当地人就会转而反对福利国家，因为他们不愿意去供养这种福利制度来惠及外人。

He has even moderated his theory that immigration must be bad for the welfare state, which caused a stir in Britain a decade ago: he now thinks welfare can persist even in an immigrant society if it is made more contributory.

“移民百分之百有损于福利国家”——即使是他自己提出这样一个强硬的理论，如今，大卫的态度也变柔和许多。他的理论十年前在英国社会掀起一场争论浪潮，而今天他却认为只要外来户贡献到位，那么福利制度依旧可行。