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."
实用例句
1. What a wretched life they lived in the workhouse!
他们在济贫院里过的生活真悲惨!
来自《简明英汉词典》
2. 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。
来自柯林斯例句
3. The beggar at last resorted to the workhouse.
最后,这个乞丐常去济贫院.
来自辞典例句
4. Home is the girl '; s prison and the woman'; s workhouse.
