work-house

英['wɜːkh'aʊs] 美['wɜːkh'aʊs]
  • [法]感化院;教养院;贫民习艺所
  • history n.历史;历史学;对过去事情的记载;过去的事
  • work n.工作;职业;工作内容;职责;活计;工作所需的材料;工作地点;努力;工作成果;行为结果;作品v.工作;做事;使工作;争取;管理;运行;操作;奏效;产生…影响;造成;抽搐;逐渐移动[复]works:工厂;修建;机器部件;全套物品
名词 workhouse:
  1. a poorhouse where able-bodied poor are compelled to labor

  2. a county jail that holds prisoners for periods up to 18 months

    1. A few scandalous whores have been sent to the House of Correction.
      有几个声名狼藉的妓女被送进了教养院。
    2. Neighbours spoke of their shock today at the tragedy in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, where the family's rundown Edwardian terrace house was sealed off by police.
      一名八岁的女孩被发现在自己的卧室中上吊自杀后,警方正在对她的父母进行小心的询问,她五岁的弟弟则被送去了教养院。