workhouse

[USA]/'wɜːkhaʊs/
[Iso-Britannia]/'wɝk'haʊs/
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Käännös

n. vankilamainen laitoshuone, johon köyhät lähetetään töihin ja saamaan koulutusta.
Word Forms

Esimerkkilauseet

What a wretched life they lived in the workhouse!

Millainen kurja elämä he elivät köydenvarassa!

Oliver Twist was sent to the workhouse as a child.

Oliver Twist lähetettiin köydenvaraan lapsena.

The workhouse provided shelter for the homeless.

Köydenvara tarjosi suojaa kodittomille.

Many families struggled to survive and ended up in the workhouse.

Monet perheet kamppailivat selviytyäkseen ja päätyivät köydenvaraan.

The workhouse system was harsh and unforgiving.

Köydenvarajärjestelmä oli ankara ja armoton.

He spent years working in the workhouse before finding a better job.

Hän työskenteli köydenvarassa useita vuosia ennen kuin löysi paremman työn.

The workhouse was overcrowded and unsanitary.

Köydenvara oli ylikansoitettu ja epähygieeninen.

She volunteered at the local workhouse to help those in need.

Hän vapaaehtoisesti auttoi köydenvarassa apua tarvitsevia.

The workhouse provided basic necessities like food and shelter.

Köydenvara tarjosi perustarpeita, kuten ruokaa ja suojaa.

The workhouse was a place of last resort for many people.

Köydenvara oli monille viimeinen oljenkorsi.

The workhouse system was eventually abolished due to public outcry.

Köydenvarajärjestelmä lopetettiin lopulta yleisen paheksunnan vuoksi.

Reaali­elämän esimerkit

At the age of nine he ends up in a miserable, grim workhouse.

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And we certainly wouldn't take somebody from the workhouse.

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'And the workhouses, where poor people can live and work? Are they still open? '

Lähde: A Christmas Carol

Back at the workhouse, Oliver was taken to see the board.

Lähde: Oliver Twist (abridged version)

The " Silent Sentinels" endured arrests and imprisonment in a squalid workhouse where they were brutalized and force-fed.

Lähde: Time

You had the proper workhouse cough, and those weak legs of yours are worth ten pound a week.

Lähde: The Sign of the Four

After all, death was a common event in the workhouse, where only the poor and homeless lived.

Lähde: Oliver Twist (abridged version)

Just briefly describe what a workhouse was.

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Why it might have been in the workhouse'.

Lähde: The South and the North (Part 1)

'Take the boy back to the workhouse, and treat him kindly.

Lähde: Oliver Twist (Original Version)

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