Alms

(noun.) money or goods contributed to the poor.

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• This is some very old inscription, existing perhaps long before the ancient alms-houses in this place. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• By the way, it will suit you, Dorothea; for the cottages are like a row of alms-houses--little gardens, gilly-flowers, that sort of thing. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• A poor prisoner, fed on alms and broken victuals; a squalid, disgraced wretch! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Some people say we shouldn't give alms to the poor, Shirley. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• They live on alms altogether, I believe. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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