| 单词 | working school |
| 释义 | > as lemmasworking school working school n. now historical (in Britain and Ireland) a school in which poor children do manual work in exchange for basic education; cf. workhouse n. 2b. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > technical school school (also college) of industry1695 working school1695 technical school1824 polytechnic1836 junior technical school1929 1695 F. Brewster Ess. Trade & Navigation 66 These Hospitals and Working-Schools will exceed not only all the Charitable Works of this Kingdom, but may be thought above any in Europe. 1787 J. Hawkins Life Johnson 391 Dr. Madden, so well-known by his premiums for the encouragement of Protestant working-schools in Ireland. 2001 S. B. Sundue in P. F. Clement & J. S. Reinier Boyhood in Amer. I. 384/2 Drawing on the example of British ‘working schools’, the young sons and daughters of the poor were identified as the best source of the necessary labor. < as lemmas |
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