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Workhouse People Poor ˈwɜːkhaʊs Noun Live Lived Work·House

A 'workhouse' was a British institution from the 17th to 19th centuries where impoverished people lived and worked in exchange for basic necessities.

workhouse: (英国17至19世纪的)济贫院,劳动救济所

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workhouse
/wɜ͟ː(r)khaʊs/
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[N-COUNT 可数名词](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


Oxford work·house / ˈwɜːkhaʊs ; NAmE ˈwɜːrkhaʊs / ( BrE) ( also poor·house NAmE, BrE ) noun (in Britain in the past) a building where very poor people were sent to live and given work to do (英国旧时的)济贫院,劳动救济所 workhouse workhouses work·house / ˈwɜːkhaʊs ; NAmE ˈwɜːrkhaʊs /
LDC
workhousework‧house /ˈwɜːkhaʊs $ ˈwɜːrk-/ noun [countable]
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a building in Britain in the past where very poor people lived if they had nowhere else to go SYN  poorhouse
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n.(英)济贫院;(美)[法] 教养所;感化院;贫民习艺所

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