halfway house

• 1. 

  N-COUNT A halfway house is a home for people such as former prisoners, mental patients, or drug addicts who can stay there for a limited period of time to get used to life outside prison or a hospital. (为出狱者、出院精神病人或已戒毒者重回社会所设立的)过渡住所

• 2. 

  N-SING A halfway house is an arrangement or thing that has some of the qualities of two different things. 折中方法; 介乎两者之间的事物

  例：

  ...a halfway house between traditional and third-generation cellular networks.

  ...介于传统和3G网络之间的一种网络。