英语词汇“workhouse”的翻译、意思、用法、释义-英汉双解词典

网站首页词典首页

单词	workhouse
释义	Related topics: Welfare, Buildingswork·house /ˈwɜːkhaʊs $ ˈwɜːrk-/ noun [countable] PEWTBBa building in Britain in the past where very poor people lived if they had nowhere else to go 〔英国旧时的〕济贫院，救贫院 SYN poorhouseExamples from the Corpusworkhouse• There were not enough workhouses to cope with the problem.• Oh yeah, that's when it got its own workhouse, too, for the parish destitutes.• A fairly serious outbreak occurred in 1928 at the workhouse.• Paupers were often taken back from the workhouse to their own parishes for burial.• The deceased said he never would go into the workhouse.• The visitors' committee did not always support the workhouse master.• That's why they built the cemetery up close to the workhouse, so they could take them over on a barrow.• The Workhouse Act of 1723 had empowered parishes to apply a workhouse test by denying relief to those who refused to enter.work·house nounChineseSyllable very the Britain in Corpus building in where poor a past
随便看	Human-topic cortex Human-topic cortex Human-topic cough Human-topic cough Human-topic cough Human-topic cough Human-topic cowlick Human-topic cowlick Human-topic cranium Human-topic cranium Human-topic crook Human-topic crook Human-topic crotch Human-topic crotch Human-topic crow's feet Human-topic crow's feet Human-topic crutch Human-topic crutch Human-topic cry Human-topic cry Human-topic cuticle Human-topic cuticle Human-topic dandruff Human-topic dandruff Human-topic deep-set