workhouse [ˈwɜ:rkhaʊs]

例句:

• She equates being in a care home with the workhouse.
  来自BBC
• What a wretched life they lived in the workhouse!
  他们在济贫院里过的生活真悲惨!
  
• Nothing was done to save these women from the twin evils of begging or the workhouse.
  没有采取任何措施把这些妇女从乞讨或济贫院这两大相似的灾难中拯救出来。
  
• The beggar at last resorted to the workhouse.
  最后,这个乞丐常去济贫院.
  
• His parents were not married, and he was brought up in a workhouse.
  来自BBC