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.劳教所；贫民院
英汉例句
- The New York State sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the workhouse.
纽约州的法律对偷窥者处以6个月劳教。 - The beggar at last resorted to the workhouse .
最后，这个乞丐常去济贫院。 - What a wretched life they lived in the workhouse!
他们在济贫院里过的生活真悲惨!
用作名词 (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