Workhouse

(noun.) a county jail that holds prisoners for periods up to 18 months.

(noun.) a poorhouse where able-bodied poor are compelled to labor.

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• There was no time to be lost, she must go to the workhouse. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Mr. Bumble emerged at early morning from the workhouse-gate, and walked with portly carriage and commanding steps, up the High Street. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• The scene, the workhouse. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• No more than two months ago, I was not only my own master, but everybody else's, so far as the porochial workhouse was concerned, and now! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• In the workhouse of this town,' was the sullen reply. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Conscious of his own innocence, he did not endeavour to hide himself when the door of the workhouse, his sanctuary, was breaking open. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Patiently to earn a spare bare living, and quietly to die, untouched by workhouse hands--this was her highest sublunary hope. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Why it might have been in the workhouse. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Master of the workhouse, young man! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• When the two trades can be carried on in the same workhouse, the loss of time is, no doubt, much less. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Sam Miles had been caught poaching, and Peter Bailey had gone to the workhouse at last. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I would as soon have been charged with a pauper brat out of a workhouse: but he was weak, naturally weak. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The hungry and destitute situation of the infant orphan was duly reported by the workhouse authorities to the parish authorities. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• My dear,' said Mr. Sowerberry, deferentially, 'this is the boy from the workhouse that I told you of. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• He also requested, as a last act of friendship, that I would see his family to the Parish Workhouse, and forget that such a Being ever lived. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.

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