workhouse

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• 英式音标 [ˈwɜːk.haʊs]
• 美式音标 [ˈwɝːk.haʊs]
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基本解释

• n.劳教所；贫民院

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英汉例句

用作名词 (n.)

• The New York State sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the workhouse.
  纽约州的法律对偷窥者处以6个月劳教。
• The beggar at last resorted to the workhouse .
  最后，这个乞丐常去济贫院。
• What a wretched life they lived in the workhouse!
  他们在济贫院里过的生活真悲惨!

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剑桥英英字典

• a building where very poor people in Britain used to work, in the past, in exchange for food and shelter

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