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

• He was recently appointed by President Obama to be part of the Council of the White House Office of Faith-based and Community Partnerships.
  最近，奥巴马总统任命他，到白宫信仰社区合作办公室，委员会任职。
• The Council has the right to sell this house, being the owners.
  理事会有权卖掉这栋房子。因为他们是房主。
• We had to wait months for the Council to approve our plans to extend our house.
  为了获得市政会对我们扩建房屋计划的批准，我们得等上几个月。
• 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。
• Areas of interest such as city halls, Legislative Council building, the peak, Flagstaff House Museum of tea ware, cat street, ocean park can be found in Hong Kong island.
  旅游热点包括大会堂及立法局大楼，而太平山顶、茶具博物馆、口摩口罗街、海洋公园，位于香港岛上。
• 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）。
• 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。
• "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 minority group has accused the Council of racism in their allocation of Council house.
  少数民族团体指控市政会在分配房子问题上有种族主义。
• The Council condemned the old house.
  议会宣告这间旧房报废了。