orphan是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 孤儿，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I replied to the Bank, sir, that as it was considered neces-sary, by those who know, and who are so kind as to advise me, that I should go to France, and that as I am an orphan and have no friend who could go with me, I should esteem it highly if I might be permitted to place myself, during the journey, under that worthy gentleman's protection.
-- To go on ' 'But this is my father's story, sir; and I begin to think' the curiously roughened forehead was very intent upon him 'that when I was left an orphan through my mother's surviving my father only two years, it was you who brought me to England.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Only then he realised what those poor little orphan children and that pitiful half-crazy Kat-erina Ivanovna, knocking her head against the wall in her consumption, meant for Sonia.
-- I will put those two little ones and Polenka into some good orphan asylum, and I will settle fifteen hundred roubles to be paid to each on coming ofage, so that Sofya Semyonovna need have no anxiety about them.
-- She has taken the three children to an old lady of high rank, the patroness of some orphan asylums, whom I used to know years ago.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, in the privacyof my own little cabin, she informed me that Ham and Em'ly werean orphan nephew and niece, whom my host had at different timesadopted in their childhood, when they were left destitute; and thatMrs. Gummidge was the widow of his partner in a boat, who haddied very poor.
-- I had already brokenout into a desolate cry, and felt an orphan in the wide world.
-- Ah!what praise it was!How lovingly and fervently did itcommend the pretty creature I had won, with all her artless gracesbest displayed, to my most gentle care!How thoughtfully remindme, yet with no pretence of doing so, of the trust in which I heldthe orphan child!
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It is quite right and proper, mademoiselle, to pray to Heaven to soften your father's heart," said Vautrin, as he drew a chair nearer to the orphan girl; "but that is not enough.
-- The quick-witted child of the Charente felt the disadvantage at which he was placed beside this tall, slender dandy, with the clear gaze and the pale face, one of those men who would ruin orphan children without scruple.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her father grew worse; her time was more entirely occupied in attending him; her means of subsistence decreased; and in the tenth 25month her father died in her arms, leaving her an orphan and a beggar.
-- His property was confiscated; his child became an orphan and a beggar.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was an orphan like myself; like me, too, had been brought up by hand.
-- He told me that he would look about him for such an orphan child.
-- She herself knows nothing, but that she was left an orphan and I adopted her."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Philanthropists of both sexes had asked who he was, and on being informed, 'Old Christopher Casby, formerly Town-agent to Lord Decimus Tite Barnacle,' had cried in a rapture of disappointment, 'Oh!why, with that head, is he not a benefactor to his species!Oh!why, with that head, is he not a father to the orphan and a friend to the friendless!'
-- He was an undecided, irresolute chap, who had everything but his orphan life scared out of him when he was young.
-- There was no other orphan among us; and I perceived (here was the first disadvantage of not being a fool) that they conciliated me in an insolent pity, and in a sense of superiority.
-- It was before my time here; but I've heerd in my dreams that Arthur's father was a poor, irresolute, frightened chap, who had had everything but his orphan life scared out of him when he was young, and that he had no voice in the choice of his wife even, but his uncle chose her.
-- 'The nephew, being, as the lucid Madame Flintwinch has remarked, a poor devil who has had everything but his orphan life frightened and famished out of him the nephew abases his head, and makes response: "My uncle, it is to you to command.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. K. told me he was from Berlin, very learned and good, but poor as a church mouse, and gives lessons to sup-port himself and two little orphan nephews whom he is educating here, according to the wishes of his sister, who married an American.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But now that he was enveloped in the old calico robes which had grown yellow in the same service, he was badged and ticketed, and fell into his place at once--a parish child--the orphan of a workhouse--the humble, half-starved drudge--to be cuffed and buffeted through the world--despised by all, and pitied by none.
-- The hungry and destitute situation of the infant orphan was duly reported by the workhouse authorities to the parish authorities.
-- 'The kind and blessed gentleman which is so many parents to you, Oliver, when you have none of your own: are a going to 'prentice' you: and to set you up in life, and make a man of you: although the expense to the parish is three pound ten!--three pound ten, Oliver!--seventy shillins--one hundred and forty sixpences!--and all for a naughty orphan which nobody can't love.'
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