workhouse音标

英 [ˈwɜ:khaʊs]

美 [ˈwɜ:rkhaʊs]

workhouse基本释义

n.劳教所；贫民院

workhouse用法及例句

workhouse的意思

noun

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

2. a poorhouse where able-bodied poor are compelled to labor

1. (英国17至19世纪的)济贫院，劳动救济所In Britain, in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, a workhouse was a place where very poor people could live and do unpleasant jobs in return for food. People use the workhouse to refer to these places in general.

e.g. ...a struggling Shropshire family which lived in fear of the workhouse.生活在对济贫院的恐惧之中、艰苦挣扎着的什罗普郡一家人

1. workhouse

1. 教养院：Worker Opinion Survey 工人意见调查 | workhouse 教养院 | working alliance 作业同盟

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2. 囚犯工厂：workhorse 驮马 | workhouse 囚犯工厂 | working capital 流动资金

3. 感化院：★workshop n. 车间 | workhouse 感化院 | ★helper n. 帮手,助手

临近词

work obligation expenses

work

work on women rs affairs

work to

work-piece recognition

work-caused disability

Work - study Activities

work in coordination with

workpiece locating system

worked the night shift.

work capacity evaluation

Work of Police Substation

相关列句

Noah was a charity-boy, but not a workhouse orphan;(诺厄是个慈善学校的男孩，但并不是济贫院里的孤儿；)

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse. (Gorge Bernard Shaw, British dramatist).(家是姑娘的监狱，女人的教养院。英国剧作家。)

"Please, Sir, I want some more." Oliver, asking the cook at the workhouse for more gruel.(“请，先生，我想再要一些。”奥利弗，要求库克在济贫更多稀饭缹。)

'Did you hear that, Workhouse?' shouted Noah.(“你听见了吗，济贫院？”诺厄嚷嚷道。)

'Please, Sir, do you know what time the Casterbridge workhouse closes?'(请问一下，先生，您知不知道卡斯特桥济贫院多会儿关门？)

I'm afraid Fanny Robin's dead, ma 'am. Dead in the Casterbridge workhouse.(好象范妮·罗宾死了，死在卡斯特桥济贫院里了。)

Back in the workhouse this would never have happened.(在济贫院里是从来不会发生这种事的。)

Then I told him about the wastage of food in the workhouse kitchen, and what I thought of it.(我和他提起贫民院厨房浪费的那些食物，谈了我对此的看法。)

You're going to the Casterbridge workhouse?(你是要去卡斯特桥济贫院吗？)

They discussed some workhouse business together, and then Mr Bumble looked hopefully at the teapot.(他们一起商量了一些济贫院的事，然后班布尔先生满怀希望地看着茶壶。)