workhouse是什么意思？

workhouse

英[ˈwɜ:khaʊs] 美[ˈwɜrkhaʊs]

• n. 囚犯工厂，贫民习艺所；

复数：workhouses;

例句

• There is always the workhouse. 无论什么时候都有济贫院.
• 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!
• ...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
• Nothing was done to save these women from the twin evils of begging or the workhouse. 没有采取任何措施把这些妇女从乞讨或济贫院这两大相似的灾难中拯救出来。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  (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.
  例句
  ...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

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a poorhouse where able-bodied poor are compelled to labor
  2. a county jail that holds prisoners for periods up to 18 months