workhouse
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- 英式音標(biāo) [?w??k.ha?s]
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基本解釋
- n.勞教所；貧民院
英漢例句
- The New York State sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the workhouse.
紐約州的法律對偷窺者處以6個月勞教。 - The beggar at last resorted to the workhouse .
最后，這個乞丐常去濟(jì)貧院。 - What a wretched life they lived in the workhouse!
他們在濟(jì)貧院里過的生活真悲慘!
用作名詞 (n.)
英英字典
- a building where very poor people in Britain used to work, in the past, in exchange for food and shelter