almshouse

almshouse

美 ['ɑ:mzha?s] 　英 ['ɑ:mzha?s]

• n.（英國舊時的）救濟院
• 網絡濟貧院；私立濟貧院；公立救濟院

詞形變化

復數：almshouses  

英漢雙解

英漢解釋

na.

1. 濟貧院

英英解釋

n.	1. a house formerly built as accommodation for a poor or old person or family and maintained by private charitable funds.

例句

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

倘若主人無家可歸，她就會拉著他的手回她的老家——濟貧院去。

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

一面是皇宮，另一面是濟貧院和“默默無言的貧窮人”。

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

從濟貧院或別處出來的傻瓜也來看我；

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

設定太陽被從富有的男人住所同樣地同樣地明亮地從私立濟貧院或養老院的窗戶反射；