safety-net

基本解釋

California already has the worst credit rating among the 50 states, and budget cuts have torn a hole in the state’s social safety-net.
加州現(xiàn)在是美國(guó)國(guó)內(nèi)信用等級(jí)最低的州，而削減預(yù)算已經(jīng)使得居民社會(huì)保險(xiǎn)出現(xiàn)虧空。
Second is better regulation. Despite improvements from EU membership, businesses still battle with profit-choking red tape. Third is a better social safety-net.
第二點(diǎn)是更優(yōu)化的法槼躰系，盡琯歐盟成員國(guó)的身份起到了很大的提陞作用，但是商業(yè)還是在同阻礙利潤(rùn)的繁文縟節(jié)作鬭爭(zhēng)；
In any case, Mrs Merkel says she will not extend the safety-net beyond 2013 without big changes, such as ensuring that bondholders—not just taxpayers—bear some of the cost of future rescues.
在任何一種情況下，默尅爾稱，如果不作出諸如確保債權(quán)人（而不僅僅是納稅人）承擔(dān)以後救助的部分成本之類的大幅變動(dòng)的情況下，她不會(huì)將安全網(wǎng)續(xù)展超過(guò)2013年。

Germany -- like most of Europe -- has a broad safety net: benefits for the poor and unemployed, universal health care and good pensions.

Nor would America's still-powerful real-estate industry let its federal safety-net go without a fight.
ECONOMIST: America's housing market
The safety-net beneath the euro zone's third- and fourth-biggest economies is flimsy, and investors know it.
ECONOMIST: The euro crisis, part 394
The unions want the government to protect jobs and improve provisions for a social safety-net.
ECONOMIST: South Korea feels the pinch

A safety net is something that you can rely on to help you if you get into a difficult situation.
In a circus, a safety net is a large net that is placed below performers on a high wire or trapeze in order to catch them and prevent them being injured if they fall off.