orphan

英 [ˈɔːfn]

美 [ˈɔːrfn]

n.  孤儿
v.  使成为孤儿

复数：orphans　现在分词：orphaning　过去式：orphaned　第三人称单数：orphans　过去分词：orphaned　

CET4CET6考研TEM8计算机

Collins.1 / BNC.9767 / COCA.7521

牛津词典

noun

• 孤儿
  a child whose parents are dead
  1. He was an orphan and lived with his uncle.
     他是个孤儿，和他叔叔一起生活。
  2. orphan boys/girls
     父母双亡的男孩 / 女孩

verb

• 使成为孤儿
  to make a child an orphan
  1. She was orphaned in the war.
     战争使她成为孤儿。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 孤儿
  Anorphanis a child whose parents are dead.
  1. I'm an orphan and pretty much grew up on my own.
     我是个孤儿，差不多是靠自己长大的。
  2. ...a young orphan girl brought up by peasants...
     由农民抚养长大的幼小孤女
• V-PASSIVE 使成为孤儿
  If a childis orphaned, their parents die, or their remaining parent dies.
  1. Jones was orphaned at the age of ten, and taken in by next-door neighbours...
     琼斯10岁时成为孤儿，被隔壁的邻居收养。
  2. By the end of the decade, some ten million children are expected to have been orphaned by the disease.
     到这个10年结束时，大约1,000万儿童将会因为这种疾病而失去双亲。
  3. ..a fifteen-year-old boy left orphaned by the recent disaster.
     被最近的那场灾难夺走了父母的15岁男孩

英英释义

noun

• a young animal without a mother
• the first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column
• a child who has lost both parents
• someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision

verb

• deprive of parents

双语例句

• I think I was chosen because I was an orphan nobody was really interested in, except the controllers.
  我想我被选中，是因为我是一个故而，没人对我感兴趣，除了控制者。
• The story begins with the handsome but poor orphan who lived with his elder brother and sister-in-law.
  这个故事开始于英俊的，但是可怜的孤儿的生活与他的哥哥和嫂子。
• At the age of three his mother died, leaving him an orphan.
  他三岁那年母亲死了，丢下他成了孤儿。
• When his parents were killed in an accident, he became an orphan.
  当他的父母在事故中丧生之后，他便成了孤儿。
• His parents died in the same year, leaving her an orphan.
  在同一年里他的父母都去世了，（结果）他成了孤儿。
• Jack's father died, leaving him an orphan.
  杰克的父亲去世了，使他成为孤儿。
• I think this orphan is more important to you than I am.
  我想这孤儿对你来说比我重要。
• He is an orphan and grew up in a orphanage.
  他是个孤哀子，从小长在孤儿院。
• I haven't got a mother. I'm an orphan.
  我没有妈妈，我是个孤儿。
• I'm an orphan. I used to work for the family that lived here.
  我是个孤儿，过去我给住在这儿的这家人干活。