parentless是什么意思_parentless短语搭配_parentless权威例句

柯林斯词典

同根词

词根：parent

• adj.

  parental 父母亲的，父母的；亲代的，亲本的

• n.

  parent 父亲（或母亲）；父母亲；根源

  parenthood 亲子关系；父母身分

权威例句

1. A parentless child will feel the breeze as cold as a piercing wind.

没有父母的孩子就是微风吹在他身上，也觉得像刺骨的寒风。

2. OVER the past few years, a growing number of America's parentless children have found homes.

过去几年里，美国越来越多的没有父母的儿童找到了家。

实用例句

1. In the thick of wartime, four children, Peter (William Moseley), Susan (Anna Popplewell), Edmund (Skandar Keynes), and Lucy (Georgie Henley), arrive, suitably parentless, at a country house.

NEWYORKER: (director: Andrew Adamson; 2005)

2. On the nonscripted side, CBS will try its luck at luring youngsters, something the network has struggled with in the past, with Kid Nation, a TV variation on Lord of the Flies, about 40 kids who create a parentless society.

FORBES: Magazine Article

3. Stuck between two conflicting legal systems, the baby, in effect, became stateless and parentless and there were major difficulties trying to get the baby through immigration into Britain.

BBC: High Court judge approves commercial surrogacy

4. The man we see is sad and vulnerable and ferocious all at once frightened as a virtually parentless boy in Brooklyn who was robbed by neighborhood kids, then remorseless as a baby gangster robbing drug dealers.

NEWYORKER: Tyson