poorhouse

poorhouse什么意思,poorhouse翻译

基本解释

n.: （英国旧时的）济贫院
网络: 救济院；贫民院；救济站

权威解释

• （英国旧时的）济贫院，劳动救济所:

  (in Britain in the past) a building where very poor people were sent to live and given work to do

英汉解释

• 贫民院;养育院

词性分析

• 复数：poorhouses

例句

• 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。

• 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。

• 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。

• 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。

• 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。

• 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。

• 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。

• 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。

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

  还有救济院--也有很多，对不对？

• 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。