workhouses
英 [ˈwɜːkhaʊsɪz]
美
n. (英国旧时的)济贫院，劳动救济所
workhouse的复数
柯林斯词典
- 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.- ...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
- ...a struggling Shropshire family which lived in fear of the workhouse.
双语例句
- But something went wrong. Hospitals got more grim and bleak, conflated with workhouses and prisons.
但经似乎有点念歪了，集救济所及监狱于一身的医院越发变得阴森与凄凉。