Orphan
['ɔːf(ə)n] or ['ɔrfn]
解释:
(noun.) a young animal without a mother.
(noun.) the first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column.
(noun.) a child who has lost both parents.
(noun.) someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision.
(verb.) deprive of parents.
贾尔斯录入--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living.
(a.) Bereaved of parents, or (sometimes) of one parent.
(v. t.) To cause to become an orphan; to deprive of parents.
整理:纳特
解释:
n. a child bereft of father or mother or of both.—adj. bereft of parents.—v.t. to bereave of parents.—ns. Or′phanage the state of being an orphan: a house for orphans; Or′phan-asy′lum; Or′phanhood Or′phanism; Orphanot′rophy the supporting of orphans.
布丽奇特编辑
娱乐性解释：
Condoling with orphans in a dream, means that the unhappy cares of others will touch your sympathies and cause you to sacrifice much personal enjoyment. If the orphans be related to you, new duties will come into your life, causing estrangement from friends ant from some person held above mere friendly liking.
希勒尔录入
娱乐性解释：
n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude—a privation appealing with a particular eloquence to all that is sympathetic in human nature. When young the orphan is commonly sent to an asylum where by careful cultivation of its rudimentary sense of locality it is taught to know its place. It is then instructed in the arts of dependence and servitude and eventually turned loose to prey upon the world as a bootblack or scullery maid.
校对:托妮
例句:
- Mr and Mrs Boffin, sitting side by side, with Fashion withdrawn to an immeasurable distance, fell to discussing how they could best find their orphan. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- The only person I know who exactly answers your description, and for whom as a poor deserted orphan it would be a charity to provide, is in Paris. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Are you an orphan? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Go you to England, Lionel; return to sweet Idris and dearest Adrian; return, and let my orphan girl be as a child of your own in your house. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- I am an orphan. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- The condition of her orphan children was peculiarly desolate. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- If he could have known that he was an orphan, left to the tender mercies of church-wardens and overseers, perhaps he would have cried the louder. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- In this young sportsman, distinguished by a crisply curling auburn head and a bluff countenance, the Secretary descried the orphan. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- I suppose you are an orphan: are not either your father or your mother dead? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Now she was alone, an orphan, and they, strangely, had gone away from her, and vanished from the face of the earth. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- Except that we are both orphans, we are in every respect as unlike each other as possible. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- He and Jo keep us merry, for we get pretty blue sometimes, and feel like orphans, with you so far away. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- They were both orphans and (what was very unexpected and curious to me) had never met before that day. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Parents boldly represented themselves as dead, and brought their orphans with them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Orphans, in the fullest sense of the term, we were poorest among the poor, and despised among the unhonoured. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Well, all the girls here have lost either one or both parents, and this is called an institution for educating orphans. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
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