workhouse

音标/读音 [英 [ˈwɜ:khaʊs] 美 [ˈwɜ:rkhaʊs]]
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n.劳教所;贫民院

第三人称复数:workhouses

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workhouse的用法及例句:

Noah was a charity-boy, but not a workhouse orphan;(诺厄是个慈善学校的男孩,但并不是济贫院里的孤儿;)

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse. (Gorge Bernard Shaw, British dramatist).(家是姑娘的监狱,女人的教养院。英国剧作家。)

"Please, Sir, I want some more." Oliver, asking the cook at the workhouse for more gruel.(“请,先生,我想再要一些。”奥利弗,要求库克在济贫更多稀饭缹。)

'Did you hear that, Workhouse?' shouted Noah.(“你听见了吗,济贫院?”诺厄嚷嚷道。)

'Please, Sir, do you know what time the Casterbridge workhouse closes?'(请问一下,先生,您知不知道卡斯特桥济贫院多会儿关门?)

I'm afraid Fanny Robin's dead, ma 'am. Dead in the Casterbridge workhouse.(好象范妮·罗宾死了,死在卡斯特桥济贫院里了。)

Back in the workhouse this would never have happened.(在济贫院里是从来不会发生这种事的。)

Then I told him about the wastage of food in the workhouse kitchen, and what I thought of it.(我和他提起贫民院厨房浪费的那些食物,谈了我对此的看法。)

You're going to the Casterbridge workhouse?(你是要去卡斯特桥济贫院吗?)

They discussed some workhouse business together, and then Mr Bumble looked hopefully at the teapot.(他们一起商量了一些济贫院的事,然后班布尔先生满怀希望地看着茶壶。)