council house

英 [ˈkaʊnsl haʊs]

美 [ˈkaʊnsl haʊs]

n.  地方政府出租住房(或公寓)

牛津词典

noun

• 地方政府出租住房（或公寓）
  a house or flat rented from the local council

柯林斯词典

• (英国的)地方政府出租住房，地方政府廉租房
  In Britain, acouncil houseis a house that is owned by a local council and that people can rent at a low cost.

双语例句

• Abandoned by his previous owner and rescued from a boarded-up council house by a charity, he had not had the easiest start to life.
  比利的命运并不幸运，曾遭前任主人抛弃。后被慈善组织从一间木制廉租房中救出。
• They were joined in the Oval Office by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling and White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley.
  在椭圆办公室参加会晤的还有财政部长提摩西·盖特纳（TimothyGeithner）、国家经济委员会（NationalEconomicCouncil）主任基因·斯珀林（GeneSperling）和白宫办公厅主任比尔·戴利（BillDaley）。
• Just look at his most prominent jobs initiative, his jobs and Competitiveness Council, which will meet with him at the White House this month.
  看看他最得意的就业刺激举措吧，也就是本月即将与他碰面的就业与竞争力委员会（JobsandCompetitivenessCouncil）。
• For three years, there's been a running fight between the Tory and Labour members of the Housing Committee about raising council house rents.
  3年来，住房供给委员会的保守党成员和工党成员就提高社团房租事宜互相进行了追击战。
• In the same year in December the State Council issued a circular prohibiting urban residents to rural areas buy a house. Nevertheless, the development of informal property rights is still in full swing.
  同年12月国务院发出通知，禁止城镇居民去农村买房。尽管如此，小产权房发展的仍是如火如荼。
• We bought a three-bed ex council house in anice street, but I couldn't help comparing it with friends'houses.
  我们也在一个不错的街区里买了有三间睡房的过度自治会的房子。
• It will take ages for the council to grant planning permission for our house extension so I'd better set the wheels in motion now.
  市政会批准我们房子的扩建申请要一些时间，因此我最好现在就使它开始动起来。
• "At the Council board he was taciturn; and in the House of Lords he never opened his lips"( Macaulay).
  “在众议院他沉默寡言；在参议院中他从不开口”：（麦考莱）。
• The Council condemned the old house.
  议会宣告这间旧房报废了。
• She and her children, now aged nine and seven, are living in a three bedroom council house and she is returning to college to get her GCSEs with ambitions of becoming a healthcare worker.
  她和9岁的儿子、7岁的女儿目前居住在三室型的简易住宅之中，而她也雄心勃勃地回归校园，考取普通中等教育证书，期待今后能成为保健工作者。