workhouse

英['wɜːkhaʊs] 美['wɜːrkhaʊs]
  • n. 劳教所；<英>贫民院

详细释义

Noun:
  1. a poorhouse where able-bodied poor are compelled to labor

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

双语例句

1. What a wretched life they lived in the workhouse!
他们在济贫院里过的生活真悲惨!

来自《简明英汉词典》

2. Nothing was done to save these women from the twin evils of begging or the workhouse.
没有采取任何措施把这些妇女从乞讨或济贫院这两大相似的灾难中拯救出来。

来自柯林斯例句

3. The beggar at last resorted to the workhouse.
最后,这个乞丐常去济贫院.

来自辞典例句

4. Home is the girl '; s prison and the woman'; s workhouse.
家是姑娘的监狱,女人的教养院.

来自互联网

5. There is always the workhouse.
无论什么时候都有济贫院.

来自互联网

    用作名词 (n.)
    1. The New York State sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the workhouse.
      纽约州的法律对偷窥者处以6个月劳教。
    2. The beggar at last resorted to the workhouse .
      最后，这个乞丐常去济贫院。
    3. What a wretched life they lived in the workhouse!
      他们在济贫院里过的生活真悲惨!

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