poorhouse

poorhouse怎么读

英式音标：[ˈpɔ:haʊs]

美式音标：[ˈpʊrhaʊs]

poorhouse的意思释义

n.

贫民院；

变形

复数：poorhouses

英英释义

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

poorhouse用法及例句

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

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，我们较终会进救济院的。

例句参考

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...