workhouse

noun

1. （英国旧时的）济贫院，劳动救济所
   (in Britain in the past) a building where very poor people were sent to live and given work to do

1. N-COUNT (英国17至19世纪的)济贫院，劳动救济所
   In Britain, in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, a workhouse was a place where very poor people could live and do unpleasant jobs in return for food. People use the workhouse to refer to these places in general.
   1. ...a struggling Shropshire family which lived in fear of the workhouse.
      生活在对济贫院的恐惧之中、艰苦挣扎着的什罗普郡一家人

1. 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。
2. In the workhouse where O liver was born, Mrs Corney-the widow in charge-was making tea by her fire. When she heard a knock at her door, she frowned and called out sharply, 'Come in.
   在奥利弗出生的济贫院里，科尼太太一个负责管事的寡妇在炉火旁煮着茶，忽听有人敲门。她皱起了眉头并大声喊着：进来。
3. Eg: The children were taken from the workhouse.
   孩子们被带离了济贫院。
4. Workhouse, hows your mother? he asked.
   济贫院，你妈妈呢？他问道。
5. 'Did you hear that, Workhouse?' shouted Noah.
   你听见了吗，济贫院？诺厄嚷嚷道。
6. In fact she was at that moment being put in her coffin at the workhouse, but he did not know that.
   实际上，她此刻正在济贫院被放入棺材，而他却一无所知。
7. His listeners heard all the details of Oliver's illegitimate birth, and how generously he had been treated as a workhouse orphan.
   他的听众知道了奥利弗非法出生的详细过程，以及作为济贫院里的孤儿他得到了怎样宽厚的待遇。
8. So Noah ran through the streets as quickly as he could to fetch the beadle. When he reached the workhouse, he waited for a minute to make sure his face was suitably tearful and frightened.
   诺厄尽可能快地跑着，穿过了几条街道，去叫执事。他来到了济贫院，先在外面站了一会儿，好确实做到自己的脸上有适当的泪痕和害怕的样子。
9. Noah was a charity-boy, but not a workhouse orphan; he at least knew who his parents were.
   诺厄是个慈善学校的男孩，但并不是济贫院里的孤儿；他起码还知道自己的父母是谁。
10. Back at the workhouse, Oliver was taken to see the board.
    回到了济贫院，奥利弗被带去见董事会的人。
11. One day Mr Bumble met the local undertaker, Mr Sowerberry, outside the workhouse.
    一天，班布尔先生在济贫院外面遇见了当地的棺材店老板索尔贝里先生。
12. At six o'clock the next morning she finally fell in front of the door of the workhouse, and the people there took her in.
    早上六点，她终于倒在济贫院门前，那儿的人们把她接了进去。
13. Thus, a workhouse would be much more specific and accurate.
    所以，一个济贫院这个答案似乎更加具体和精确。
14. You gonna cry, workhouse?
    你要哭了吗，救济院来的？
15. Then I'll whop you one when I get in, you workhouse brat.
    我进来后要好好教训你一顿，救济院的小子。
16. I know you're no stranger to the workhouse.
    你一定熟悉贫民习艺所的日子。
17. Workhouse boys always cost more to keep than they're worth.
    救济院的孩子吃得都比一般孩子多。
18. Mauhwa workhouse is not only a good base for the development of enterprises, but an ideal place to live in for the employees.
    茂华工场不仅是企业生产发展的基地，还是企业员工居住生活的理想场所。
19. What a wretched life they lived in the workhouse!
    他们在济贫院里过的生活真悲惨！
20. What'd she die of, workhouse?
    她怎么死的，救济院来的？
21. The beggar at last resorted to the workhouse.
    那乞丐最终去了济贫院。
22. Nor should such virtues always be mourned: they have been a source of bad faith, warfare, inequality and oppression: part of the energy not just of great thought, or bold politics, but also of Empire and slavery, exclusion and the workhouse.
    我们也不应总是哀悼这种美德：它们会产生邪恶的信仰，招致战争、不公和压迫；它们不只催生伟大的思想、大胆的政治活动，还会滋生帝国和奴隶制、排外行为和救济院。
23. There exists a long tradition of the poor relief in Britain. The seventeenth century witnessed the gradual evolution of the workhouse. After 1834, indoor relief had become the center of the New Poor Law system.
    济贫在英国有着久远的传统，从17世纪开始，济贫院在英国逐步发展起来，1834年后，院内救济成为新济贫法体系的核心。
24. The Structural Design of High-rise Building and Structural Form Selection Research of One Project Aiming at the dynamic reliability appraisal, the dynamic load subjected to the bridge crane in a workhouse is studied.
    本文针对某工程结构可靠性鉴定工作，研究桥式吊车使用中对厂房的荷载作用；
25. Inner space and environment design of workhouse
    厂房内部空间与环境设计
26. The design principle for modern industrial workhouse is discussed.
    探讨了现代工业厂房的设计原则。
27. The cruel of workhouse after reform had been revealed by many writers, but the reform itself had not been concerned.
    对改革后的济贫院的残酷许多人都有过深刻的揭露，但这场济贫院改革却没有得到太多人的关注。
28. Workhouse emerged in the beginning of seventeenth century as an alternative form of relief, providing accommodation to the poor who could not make a living.
    济贫院大约在17世纪初作为社会救济的补充形式出现，主要是向生活难以为续的贫民提供食宿。
29. With the popularity of outdoor-relief, the workhouse relief was the complementary and unpopular term of relief before nineteenth century, and had shown no important influence upon poor relief.
    在院外救济盛行的情况下，济贫院救济在19世纪之前处于辅助和不普及的地位，对于贫民救济没有产生多大的影响。

noun

1. a county jail that holds prisoners for periods up to 18 months

2. a poorhouse where able-bodied poor are compelled to labor