I says. " I haven't seen you in the poorhouse yet" .

我说。“我还没在济贫院见过你呢” 。

What about the poorhouses that I pay for?

我给救济院交的税干嘛吃了？

Blathersville wants a Nicholson pavement--it wants a jail and a poorhouse more.

布拉瑟斯维尔想要一条尼科尔森人行道——它想要更多的监狱和救济院。

If you read a novel by Charles Dickens, he often talks about these poorhouses.

如果你读过查尔斯·狄更斯的小说，他经常谈论这些济贫院。

If I left it up to you, we'd be in the poorhouse by now!

如果我让你来决定的话，我们现在就已经进救济院了！

Gabrielle Bonheur was a nun at the poorhouse  in Saumur who agreed to act as her godmother.

加布里埃尔·博纳尔 (Gabrielle Bonheur) 是索米尔济贫院的一名修女，她同意担任她的教母。

This was a poorhouse—a place for orphans and homeless poor people who couldn't take care of themselves.

这是一间救济院——收容孤儿和无家可归的生活不能自理的穷人的地方。

They think that even if they send them to college, that's not a guarantee anymore, and they have to go to the poorhouse just to get them there.

他们认为即使送他们上大学，也不再是保证，他们必须去救济院才能让他们上大学。

" —Why, when I was just two years older than you, " he rasped with a cunning chuckle, " I sent three members of the firm of Wrenn and Hunt to the poorhouse" .

“——为什么，当我只比你大两岁的时候，”他带着狡黠的笑声刺耳地说，“我把 Wrenn and Hunt 公司的三名成员送到了救济院。”

It was evidently " Love me, love my Phebe, " so she made up her mind on the spot that Phebe was somebody, and that gave an air of romance even to the poorhouse.

显然是“爱我，爱我的菲比”，所以她当场就认定菲比是个大人物，这甚至给济贫院带来了浪漫的气氛。