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workhouse

英 ['wɜːkhaʊs] 美 ['wɝk'haʊs]

解释

n. （英）济贫院；（美）[法] 教养所；感化院；贫民习艺所

※ 提供单词"workhouse"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

英文词源

workhouse (n.): Old English weorchus "workshop;" see work (n.) + house (n.). From 1650s in the sense of "place where the able-bodied poor or petty criminals are lodged and compelled to work."

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例句和用法

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

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。

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

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.

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