almshouse

单词almshouse

基本解释

n.: （英国旧时的）救济院
网络: 济贫院；私立济贫院；公立救济院

权威解释

• （英国旧时的）救济院，贫民所:

  (in the past in Britain) a house owned by a charity where poor people (usually the old) lived without paying rent

英汉解释

• 救济院

• 济贫院

词性分析

• 复数：almshouses

例句

• or, being homeless elsewhere, she would take her master by the hand and bring him to her native home, the almshouse.

  倘若主人无家可归，她就会拉着他的手回她的老家——济贫院去。

• On the one side is the palace, on the other are the almshouse and "silent poor. "

  一面是皇宫，另一面是济贫院和“默默无言的贫穷人”。

• Half-witted men from the almshouse and elsewhere came to see me;

  从济贫院或别处出来的傻瓜也来看我；

• The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man"s abode;

  设定太阳被从富有的男人住所同样地同样地明亮地从私立济贫院或养老院的窗户反射；