workhouse
英 ['wɜːkhaʊs]
美['wɝk'haʊs]
- n. （英）济贫院；（美）[法] 教养所；感化院；贫民习艺所
英英释义
- 1. a poorhouse where able-bodied poor are compelled to labor
- 2. a county jail that holds prisoners for periods up to 18 months
考试真题
- In Oliver Twist, e traces an orphan’s progress from the workhouse to the criminal slums of London.
出自-2017年考研阅读原文
- In Oliver Twist, he traces an orphan's progress from the workhouse to the criminal slums of London.
2017年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
实用场景例句
- What a wretched life they lived in the workhouse!
- 他们在济贫院里过的生活真悲惨!
《简明英汉词典》
- The beggar at last resorted to the workhouse.
- 最后,这个乞丐常去济贫院.
辞典例句
- There is always the workhouse.
- 无论什么时候都有济贫院.
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- Stella: The New York State sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the workhouse.
- 史黛拉: 偷窥狂在纽约州的法律是要判六个月工厂劳役的.
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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.
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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."
词态变化
复数: workhouses;