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.勞教所；貧民院

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英汉例句

用作名詞 (n.)

• The New York State sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the workhouse.
  紐約州的法律對媮窺者処以6個月勞教。
• The beggar at last resorted to the workhouse .
  最後，這個乞丐常去濟貧院。
• What a wretched life they lived in the workhouse!
  他們在濟貧院裡過的生活真悲慘!

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

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