| 词汇 | workhouse |
| 释义 | workhouse noun[ C ] uk /ˈwɜːk.haʊs/ us /ˈwɝːk.haʊs/ a building where very poor people in Britain used to work, in the past, in exchange for food and shelter（英国旧时的）劳动济贫所 Compare poorhouse Houses & homes A-frame ADU affordable housing almshouse apartment dormitory dosshouse dower house duplex efficiency multifamily Nissen hut non-housing old people's home palace tower block town house townhouse tract house trap house Examples of workhouseworkhouse A properly regulated union workhouse would perhaps deter the great numbers of casual applicants and control those who entered its doors. We have also excluded almost 14 per cent of the patients group who were inmates of workhouses and other institutions in 1851 and 1881. Local government provided medical care for paupers free of charge in their homes or in a workhouse infirmary. Presumably workhouses and longstay hospitals at one time appeared equally established but both are now rare beasts. In the country a home is still just the workhouse, a place for paupers. This was a tendency only, and is not clear-cut for all workhouses. The working classes who were not poor enough for the workhouse were housed in appalling conditions provided almost entirely by private landlords. At the same time, civil servants calculated that compelling all poor law claimants to enter the workhouse was too expensive. Others could not even gain admittance to the workhouse. This effectively left workhouse children parentless, or rather, the new poor law and its functionaries became the institutional parents of a newly created orphan class. In the workhouse there is of necessity a dead level of monotony - there are many persons but no individuals. They provided detailed descriptions of the escapees, even offering rewards for their return and threats of the workhouse when finally recaptured. The oldest and poorest women were likely to be dependent, but in the homes of others or in workhouses rather than residing with close kin. Real as distinct from illustory changes might be due to the presence of a workhouse, for instance. He favoured a punitive workhouse system to keep the able-bodied male up to the mark. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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