Old English weorchus "workshop;" see work (n.) + house (n.). From 1650s in the sense of "place where the able-bodied poor or petty criminals are lodged and compelled to work."
雙語例句
1. What a wretched life they lived in the workhouse!
他們?cè)跐?jì)貧院里過的生活真悲慘!
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. Nothing was done to save these women from the twin evils of begging or the workhouse.
沒有采取任何措施把這些婦女從乞討或濟(jì)貧院這兩大相似的災(zāi)難中拯救出來。
來自柯林斯例句
3. The beggar at last resorted to the workhouse.
最后,這個(gè)乞丐常去濟(jì)貧院.
來自辭典例句
4. Home is the girl '; s prison and the woman'; s workhouse.