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workhouse

n.囚犯工厂,贫民习艺所

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workhouse为短语/超纲词汇

workhouse


(Brit) (formerly 旧时) public institution where very poor people were sent to live and given work to do 济贫院.

workhouse


n[C]
a building in Britain in the past where very poor people lived if they had nowhere else to go
= poorhouse