Foundling
['faʊndlɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner.
希勒尔錄入
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Abandoned infant.
手打:劳里
例句/造句/用法:
- All the bells of Sabbath were ringing, and she followed them until she came to the Foundling Church, into which she went. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- If Plato's 'pen' was as fatal as the Creches of Paris, or the foundling hospital of Dublin, more than nine-tenths of his children would have perished. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- So one day, five or six years ago now, when we took Pet to church at the Foundling--you have heard of the Foundling Hospital in London? 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- In foundling hospitals, and among the children brought up by parish charities, the mortality is still greater than among those of the common people. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I shan't leave my money to be poured down the sink, and I shan't leave it to foundlings from Africay. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- All the children born in his state are foundlings. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
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