[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
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work·house/ˈwɜːkhaʊs; NAmEˈwɜːrkhaʊs/( BrE) (alsopoor·houseNAmE,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workhouseworkhouseswork·house/ˈwɜːkhaʊs; NAmEˈwɜːrkhaʊs/