In Oliver Twist, he traces an orphan's progress from the workhouse to the criminal slums of London.

在《雾都孤儿》一书中，他追踪描述了一个孤儿从济贫院到伦敦高发犯罪贫民窟的生活经历。

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How long was she in the workhouse?

她在济贫院呆了多久了？

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Then I told him about the wastage of food in the workhouse kitchen, and what I thought of it.

我和他提起贫民院厨房浪费的那些食物，谈了我对此的看法。

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The children who lived at the workhouse in Gressenhall were never expected to rise above their station in life.

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We were like 21st century Oliver Twists, poised to be kicked out of the workhouse if we asked for more gruel.

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When Thomas Jefferson described the view from Monticello in 1786, he wrote, "How sublime to look down into the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!"

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