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Bridewell的音标发音
Bridewell
英式发音：[braidwәl]
美式发音
(n.) A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's (or Bridget's) well, in London, which was subsequently a penal workhouse.
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双语例句
- And warn't it me as had been tried afore, and as had been know'd up hill and down dale in Bridewells and Lock-Ups! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
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