"Orphans" is merely my generic term for the children; a good many of them are not orphans in the least. They have one troublesome and tenacious parent left who won't sign a surrender, so I can't place them out for adoption. But those that are available would be far better off in loving foster-homes than in the best institution that I can ever make. So I am fitting them for adoption as quickly as possible, and searching for the homes.英文原著 · 《Dear Enemy》
Did you ever know anything more appalling than this soul- crushing unreasoning obedience which Mrs. Lippett so insistently fostered? It's the orphan asylum attitude toward life, and somehow I must crush it out. Initiative, responsibility, curiosity, inventiveness, fight--oh dear! I wish the doctor had a serum for injecting all these useful virtues into an orphan's circulation.英文原著 · 《Dear Enemy》
I had a dreadful time coaxing the crusty old gentleman who owns the estate into granting permission. He doesn't like orphans, he says, and if he once lets them get a start in his grounds, the place will be infested with them forever. You would think, to hear him talk, that orphans were a pernicious kind of beetle.英文原著 · 《Dear Enemy》
Manders. Nor can I entirely overlook the difficult--indeed, I may say, painful--position I might possibly be placed in. In the best circles in town the matter of this Orphanage is attracting a great deal of attention. Indeed the Orphanage is to some extent built for the benefit of the town too, and it is to be hoped that it may result in the lowering of our poor-rate by a considerable amount. But as I have been your adviser in the matter and have taken charge of the business side of it, I should be afraid that it would be I that spiteful persons would attack first of all.英文原著 · 《Ghosts》
[10] "The Archon was the legal protector of all orphans. It was his duty to appoint guardians, if none were named in the father's will."--C. Kennedy, Note to "Select Speeches of Demosthenes." The orphans of those who had fallen in the war (Thuc. 46) were specially cared for.英文原著 · 《On Revenues》
Mary To me, all to me. Oh Mr. Trenchard, how we have all wronged poor grandfather. What, gone? He felt after such tidings, he felt I should be left alone--who would suspect there was such delicacy under that rough husk, but I can hardly believe the startling news-- his heiress--I, the penniless orphan of an hour ago, no longer penniless, but, alas, an orphan still, [Enter Florence.] with none to share my wealth, none to love me.英文原著 · 《Our American Cousin》
This is like when my grandma wanted to give all her money to that orphanage,美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
You cannot throw a lavish party at the very moment when you're draining the meager resources of what amounts to a village of apple-cheeked orphans.美剧 · 《Billions》
Well, then this is the best day of your new life, 'cause I got a line on an orphaned two billion looking for a home, and I can get you in the room to pitch for it.美剧 · 《Billions》
Because we slept on the floor with all the kids at the orphanage. because we slept on the floor with all the kids at the orphanage.演讲 · 《The story of a girl ~ Rick Smolan》
And adopted one of the other kids at the orphanage after meeting Natasha. and adopted one of the other kids at the orphanage after meeting Natasha.演讲 · 《The story of a girl ~ Rick Smolan》