orphan

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or·phan1 /ˈɔːfən $ ˈɔːr-/ noun [countableC]

SSCa child whose parents are both dead 孤儿

The war has left thousands of children as orphans.

这场战争使成千上万的孩子成为孤儿。

orphan girl/boy/child

a poor little orphan girl

一名可怜的小孤女

Examples from the Corpus

orphan• He is the unloved schoolboy son of an unhappy marriage; she is an orphan.• Richard was an orphan, adopted at nine months.• Dr Barnardo founded homes for orphans in the late nineteenth century.• Four orphans vow to be a family, but come to break their promises.• Sheikhas were always looking for homeless orphans to take under their wing.• They are not just servants, they are like my own family: I call them my orphans.• Pepino was a ten-year-old orphan. His parents had been killed in the war.• Fiona Grogan, 17, portrayed orphan Sophie with the right quality of childlike credibility without patronising children.• This orphan grew up to be a soldier.

orphan girl/boy/child• In the case of orphan children the position is relatively clear: a child without parents needs some one to care for it.• It may well be that the better education of orphan girls was a particular feature of the experiment.• They Survey the huddled women briefly, then Stare at the orphan girls.• Jane, the orphan girl, was chosen to go.• The children's home is sending us one of their orphan boys.• When she dies-and it will be soon-she will leave behind three orphaned children.• Due to some unexplained back story, Royer-Collard has been keeping a young orphan girl locked away at a nunnery.

orphan2 verb

be orphaned SSCto become an orphan 成为孤儿

She was orphaned when her parents died in a plane crash.

父母死于空难后，她便成了孤儿。

Examples from the Corpus

be orphaned• a home for orphaned children• I remember the night Kip was orphaned.• Increased life expectancy means that it is now a rare occurrence for children to be orphaned.• White was orphaned at 14 when his parents died in a car accident.• Ben was orphaned at an early age and raised by an uncle.• Many were orphaned by the disaster, others still suffer radiation sickness.

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orphan• I remember the night Kip was orphaned.• But what if they were obliged to seek that elusive spring for the good of those they'd orphaned and anguished?• They had been orphaned and were so desperate for work that they auditioned while still mourning.• Philip Leapor may therefore have been orphaned at the age of eight.• They began with a small rented house, its first occupants a handful of people, including children orphaned by the war.• When she dies-and it will be soon-she will leave behind three orphaned children.• Cyril had been stranded, orphaned, in adulthood, in the land of the grown-up.• The first to come were two boys orphaned in the war in Kampuchea.

Origin orphan1

(1300-1400) Late Latin orphanus, from Greek orphanos

or·phan1 nounorphan2 verb

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