workhouse
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈwɜːk.haʊs]
- 美式音标 [ˈwɝːk.haʊs]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- n.勞教所；貧民院
英汉例句
- 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!
用作名詞 (n.)
英英字典
- a building where very poor people in Britain used to work, in the past, in exchange for food and shelter