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词汇 soup-kitchen
释义 soup kitchen
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈsuːp ˌkɪtʃ.ən/ us /ˈsuːp ˌkɪtʃ.ən/
a place where free soup or other food is given to people with no money or no home(为穷人或流浪者而设的)施食处,施粥处
 
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soup kitchen | American Dictionary


soup kitchen
noun[ C ]
us/ˈsup ˌkɪtʃ·ən/
a place where free food is given to people with no money or no homes

Examples of soup kitchen


soup kitchen
The tradeoff would be quite tolerable, as any soupkitchen attendant, for example, would readily confirm.
Later a soupkitchen (imaret), a caravanserai and eventually baths (hamam), shops or a hospital were added to such complexes.
Everybody had to go cap in hand to the soupkitchen and to the people who provided voluntary services.
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This is the one industrial land in the world where we are meeting our distresses without resort to the bread line or the soupkitchen.
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In 1972, with all the marvels of modern science, for poverty we have this computerised version of the soupkitchen—the family income supplement scheme.
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Do not let us allow ourselves to be converted into a soupkitchen for an indigent aircraft industry.
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After all, we are no longer living in the age of the soupkitchen.
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There is no soupkitchen about this matter.
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There is now an avocado soupkitchen there.
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Such people believe that child benefit is a type of soupkitchen.
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They do not like the "soupkitchen mentality".
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We should not approach these problems in the soupkitchen spirit.
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We are not talking about people living in a soupkitchen atmosphere.
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Child benefit is not a soupkitchen.
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And from today's debate should, therefore, be sent a clear message: do not forget those waiting in line at the soupkitchen or waiting for the next food package.
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