orphan

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n. 孤儿 a. 无双亲的, 孤儿的 vt. 使成孤儿 [计] 弧体

发音

UK /ˈɔːfən/
US /ˈɔɹfən/
其它 /ˈɔːɹfənt/

词形变化

orphans 复数 orphans orphaned orphanedst orphaneth orphaning orphans 三单 orphaning 现在分词 orphaned 过去式 orphaned 过去分词 orphanest orphanedst 过去式 orphaneth 三单 orphaned 复数

别名

orphant orphing orphane

教材释义与例句

名词

孤儿

动词

使成孤儿

形容词

孤儿的；无双亲的

释义与例句

n. A2
  1. 1.

    A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.

    孤儿

    遗孤

    孤儿仔

    无奶囝

  2. 2.

    A person, especially a minor, whose parents have permanently abandoned them.

  3. 3.

    A young animal with no mother.

  4. 4.

    Anything that is unsupported, as by its source, provider or caretaker, by reason of the supporter's demise or decision to abandon.

    比喻
  5. 5.

    A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.

    媒体 印刷
  6. 6.

    Any unreferenced object.

    计算机 工程 数学
v. C1
  1. 1.

    To deprive of parents (used almost exclusively in the passive).

    及物

    What do you do when you come across two orphaned polar bear cubs?

  2. 2.

    To make unavailable, as by removing the last remaining pointer or reference to.

    及物 计算机 工程 数学

    When you removed that image tag, you orphaned the resized icon.

    Removing categories orphans pages from the main category tree.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Deprived of parents (also orphaned).

    She is an orphan child.

  2. 2.

    Remaining after the removal of some form of support.

    比喻 引申义

    With its government funding curtailed, the gun registry became an orphan program.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 10

someone young person kid somebody child line soul individual minor
动词

上位词 3

strip deprive divest

相关短语

orphan drug 用来治疗罕见疾病的药物 orphan medicine orphan asylum [法] 孤儿院 orphan disease orphan diseases orphan receptor orphan drugs orphan star orphan stars orphan receptors orphan asylums orphan medicines orphan train orphan trains orphan John

词源

Late Middle English, from Late Latin orphanus, from Ancient Greek ὀρφανός (orphanós, “without parents, fatherless”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃órbʰos. PIE word *h₃órbʰos Cognate with Sanskrit अर्भ (árbha), Latin orbus (“orphaned”), Old High German erbi, arbi (German Erbe (“heir”)), Old English ierfa (“heir”). More at erf.

来源：wiktionary