halfway houses

柯林斯词典

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
...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。