英语释义

• a county jail that holds prisoners for periods up to 18 months

• a poorhouse where able-bodied poor are compelled to labor

片语

bridewell拘留所，感化院

community home感化院；少年教养所

Workhouse Gallery贫民习艺所画廊

Workhouse Museum救济院博物馆

workhouse sheeting博尔顿斜纹粗布

The Workhouse表演者

union workhouse联合济贫工厂

Shadows of the Workhouse战后的戏剧人生

workhouse e模块

Shadows of Workhouse贫民作坊的阴影

metropolitan workhouse京师习艺所

英汉例句

• they discussed some workhouse business together, and then mr bumble looked hopefully at the teapot.

  他们一起商量了一些济贫院的事，然后班布尔先生满怀希望地看着茶壶。

• before they can settle down for the inquest the jurors must be taken downstairs to the workhouse mortuary in the basement to be shown the body of the baby.

  验尸审讯开始前，陪审员们必须被领到楼下地下室放置婴儿尸体的停尸房。

• there was a stove burning there, and comfortable packing cases to sit on, and back numbers of the family herald, and even a copy of raffles from the workhouse library.

  棚子里生着火炉，我伸展了坐在木箱上，翻阅《家庭先驱》杂志过刊，甚至看了一会儿贫民院图书馆流出的莱福士的着作。

• also, i had my dinner from the workhouse table, and it was one of the biggest meals i have ever eaten.

  我还在贫民院的午餐桌上有了一席之地，享用了一顿前所未有的饕餮大餐。

• back in the workhouse this would never have happened.

  在济贫院里是从来不会发生这种事的。

• i was much luckier than the others, because at ten o’clock the tramp major picked me out for the most coveted of all jobs in the spike, the job of helping in the workhouse kitchen.

  我比其他人幸运得多，十点的时候站长安排我去贫民院帮厨，在收容站这可是一份令人垂涎的差事。

• 「please, sir, do you know what time the casterbridge workhouse closes?」she asked in a voice of extreme sadness.

  「请问一下，先生，您知不知道卡斯特桥济贫院多会儿关门？」她问道，声音中透出极度的悲伤。

• when we had bathed our own clothes were taken away from us, and we were dressed in the workhouse shirts, grey cotton things like nightshirts, reaching to the middle of the thigh.

  洗完澡，大家穿进来的外套都给收走了，我们换上了贫民院的衬衫，这种灰色的棉布衣服和睡袍有几分相似，一直盖过半条大腿。

• o liver cried loudly. if he could have known that he was a workhouse orphan, perhaps he would have cried even more loudly.

  奥利弗大声哭着。假如他已经知道自己是一个济贫院的孤儿，他可能会哭得更响些。

• then i told him about the wastage of food in the workhouse kitchen, and what i thought of it.

  我和他提起贫民院厨房浪费的那些食物，谈了我对此的看法。