workhouse 是什么意思

名词复数:workhouses

中文翻译与英英解释

	济贫院；〔美国〕感化院，劳动教养院。

	a county jail that holds prisoners for periods up to 18 months
	a poorhouse where able-bodied poor are compelled to labor

In England and Wales a workhouse, colloquially known as a spike, was a place where those unable to support themselves were offered accommodation and employment. The earliest known use of the term dates from 1631, in an account by the mayor of Abingdon reporting that "wee haue erected wthn our borough a workehouse to sett poore people to worke".

例句与用法

	1.	Home is the girl ' s prison and the woman ' s workhouse 家是姑娘的监狱，女人的教养院。
	2.	Some of you will perhaps be put into the workhouse 你们中的某些人可能会被送去工厂
	3.	Born here in the workhouse . moved to the parish farm 在救济院出生，然后去了教区农场
	4.	Do you hear , workhouse ? in the corner 没听到吗，救济院的？到角落里去
	5.	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
	6.	- workhouse devil . - i ' ii iearn you -救济院的魔鬼-我要教训教训你！
	7.	Workhouse devil . - i ' ii iearn you 救济院的魔鬼-我要教训教训你！
	8.	A workhouse boy and a sneak . look at him 救济院的小鬼头，看啊
	9.	Then i ' ii 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
	10.	. . . this is the orphan from the workhouse . . .这是救济院的孤儿

workhouse是什么意思

workhouse 是什么意思

中文翻译与英英解释

例句与用法