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orphan

/ˈɔɹfən/ 形容词 C2

中文: 孤儿的、无依靠的

  1. Deprived of parents (also orphaned). · She is an orphan child.
  2. Remaining after the removal of some form of support. (figuratively) · With its government funding curtailed, the gun registry became an orphan program.
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We’re getting a little boy from an orphan asylum in Nova Scotia and he’s coming on the train tonight.”
《Anne of Green Gables》,第6页 · C1
“Yes, of course,” said Marilla, as if getting boys from orphan asylums in Nova Scotia were part of the usual spring work on any well-regulated Avonlea farm instead of being an unheard of innovation.
《Anne of Green Gables》,第6页 · C1
From an orphan asylum!
《Anne of Green Gables》,第6页 · C1
Why, it was only last week I read in the paper how a man and his wife up west of the Island took a boy out of an orphan asylum and he set fire to the house at night--set it _on purpose_, Marilla--and nearly burnt them to a crisp in their beds.
《Anne of Green Gables》,第8页 · C1

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