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《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If fervent prayers, gushing from hearts overcharged with gratitude, be heard in heaven--and if they be not, what prayers are!--the blessings which the orphan child called down upon them, sunk into their souls, diffusing peace and happiness.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prince had been left an orphan when quite a little child, and Pavlicheff had entrusted him to an old lady, a relative of his own, living in the country, the child needing the fresh air and exercise of country life.
-- 'Would you believe,' said the mistress of the house, sud-denly addressing the prince, 'would you believe that that man has not even spared my orphan children?
-- The orphan was brought up by the charity of a very rich Russian landowner.
-- However this may be, the gay P brought up the orphan like a prince, provided him with tutors and governesses (pretty, of course!)
-- But when he also died, the orphan was left to provide for himself, his mother now being an invalid who had lost the use of her limbs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Quilp, consider, consider,' the old man cried, trembling so much the while, that the papers in his hand fluttered as if they were shaken by the wind, 'that orphan child!If I were alone, I could die with gladness perhaps even anticipate that doom which is dealt out so unequally: coming, as it does, on the proud and happy in their strength, and shunning the needy and afflicted, and all who court it in their despair but what I have done, has been for her.
-- And being led and tempted on by this remorseful thought into a condition which the evil-minded class before referred to would term the maudlin state or stage of drunkenness, it occurred to Mr Swiveller to cast his hat upon the ground, and moan, crying aloud that he was an unhappy orphan, and that if he had not been an unhappy orphan things had never come to this.
-- 'Left an infant by my parents, at an early age,' said Mr Swiveller, bewailing his hard lot, 'cast upon the world in my tenderest period, and thrown upon the mercies of a deluding dwarf, who can wonder at my weakness!Here's a miserable orphan for you.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This lady was one of my nearest relations, an orphan from her infancy, and under the guardianship of my father.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This very important military guest, while descending the stairs, was conversing in French about a lottery for the benefit of orphan asylums, giving his opinion that it was a good occupation for ladies.
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