单词poorhouse
n.: （英国旧时的）济贫院
网络: 救济院；贫民院；救济站
（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
贫民院;养育院
复数：poorhouses
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。