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poorhouse的意思

poorhouse


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  • n.(英国旧时的)济贫院
  • 网络救济院;贫民院;救济站

权威英汉双解

    — see alsoworkhouse

英汉释义

  • n.

    1.贫民院;养育院

英英释义

  • n.

    1.in the past, a place provided for very poor people who had no homes and were unable to feed themselves

    2.the state of not having any money

英汉例句

  • 1.Cindy: That's why you married a penny-pincher. If I left it up to you, we'd be in the poorhouse by now!

    辛迪:这就是你娶了个吝啬鬼的原因。要是凡是让你做主,我们现在就会住在救济院。

  • 2.The fact is, if the task were left entirely up to him, we'd be in the poorhouse on just his purchases of mega-jars of pickles.

    事实是,如果这个任务完全交给他,我们会因为他购买大罐腌菜而住在救济院中。

  • 3.Those who had no children or whose children were unable or unwilling to support them typically wound up in the poorhouse .

    那些无儿无女的或其子女无能力、不愿意赡养他们的老人只能病死在救济院里。

  • 4.More recent U. S. presidents have been far from the poorhouse but, in our judgment, were not among the top 10 while in office.

    按照我们的判断,许多近代的美国总统不算是穷苦出身,但也不能跻身总统财富榜的前十位。

  • 5.He would push me in my go-cart out Market Street past the statue of the Indian and on out Rose Avenue to the poorhouse.

    他经常推着我坐着的童车,穿过市场街(MarketStreet)的印第安人雕像,穿过玫瑰大道(RoseAvenue),来到贫民院。

  • 6.Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse.

    虽然贫穷,你也应该热爱生活,因为即使在救济院,你也有自己的快乐、幸福与辉煌的时刻。

  • 7.As a result, the rich blink another time Heng Kong born, a simple and thrifty and the poorhouse so the annihilation.

    于是,瞬时间又一有钱人横空出世,一个勤俭朴素的穷人家就这样湮没了。

  • 8.The tax money is used to helped the prisons and the poorhouse, and that costs me enough.

    税是用来帮助那些监狱和救济院的,并且那用了我很多钱。

  • 9.And poorhouse--there are still plenty of those, are there not?

    还有救济院--也有很多,对不对?

  • 10.You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse.

    你也许有一些愉快,兴奋,光荣的时间,即使在贫民院。

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