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An almshouse, in Britain in the past, was a house where a poor person — often an old person with little money — was allowed to live without paying rent. A church, a rich family, or a town charity usually ran it. Some old almshouses still stand, and a few still house people, though actually today’s usual words for this kind of help are more like social housing or a care home. The word is British and historical; American English almost never uses it. It is a real house, not a hospital, and not just any cheap room.
濟貧院；救濟院（英國舊時窮人可免租金住的房子，不是醫院）
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
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A building of residence for the poor, sick or elderly of a parish. Originally founded by the Church, and usually funded by charitable donations.
- Much they saw, and far they went, and many homes they visited, but always with a happy end. The Spirit stood beside sick beds, and they were cheerful; on foreign lands, and they were close at home; by struggling men, and they were patient in their greater hope; by poverty, and it was rich. In almshouse, hospital, and jail, in misery's every refuge, where vain man in his little brief authority had not made fast the door, and barred the Spirit out, he left his blessing, and taught Scrooge his precepts.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。