poorhouse
英 [ˈpɔ:haʊs] 美 [ˈpʊrhaʊs]

n.

贫民院；

变形

复数：poorhouses

英英释义

poorhouse[ 'puəhaus, 'pɔ:- ]

• n.an establishment maintained at public expense in order to provide housing for the poor and homeless

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. If we keep spending money like this,we'll end up in the poorhouse.
   如果我们一直像这样花钱，我们最终会进救济院的。

权威例句

Poorhouse
In the Shadow of the Poorhouse
Poorhouse to Warehouse: Institutional Long-Term Care in the United States
Poorhouse Justice: Underfunded Indigent Defense Services and Arbitrary Death Sentences
In the shadow of the poorhouse : a social history of welfare in America
Locked in the Poorhouse: Cities, Race, and Poverty in the United States by Fred R. Harris; Lynn A. Curtis
Stature in an early mid-19th century poorhouse population: Highland Park, Rochester, New York
From poorhouse overseer to production manager: one hundred years of old-age care in Sweden reflected in the development ...
michael b. katz. In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America. New York: Basic. 1986. Pp. xiv, 338. $22.95
Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus: Asylum, Prison, and Poorhouse: The Writings and Reform Work of Dorothea Dix in Illinois by David L. Lig...