orphaned
orphaned — 形容詞
1. describing a child or young animal whose parents are no longer alive, or sometim
失怙的
父母雙亡的，或被遺棄、無人維護的
describing a child or young animal whose parents are no longer alive, or sometimes describing a project, file, or thing that has been left without anyone to care for it.
The shelter took in an orphaned puppy that the workers found near the highway.
收容所收留了一隻被工作人員在公路旁發現的失怙小狗。
attributive: orphaned + young animal / child
Hoa was orphaned at the age of seven when both of her parents died in a flood.
Hoa 在七歲時失怙，她的父母在一場洪水中雙雙喪生。
passive pattern: be orphaned at the age of N
The charity runs a school for orphaned children in three small villages outside the city.
這個慈善機構在城外的三個小村莊裡為失怙的兒童開辦學校。
The company shut down its old chat app, leaving thousands of orphaned user files on the server.
那家公司關閉了舊版聊天軟體，伺服器上留下了數以千計無人認領的使用者檔案。
Volunteers spent the weekend bottle-feeding the orphaned lambs at the farm sanctuary.
志工們在農場庇護所花了一整個週末，用奶瓶餵食那些失去母羊的小羊。
- parentless
more literal and clinical; less common in everyday speech
- abandoned
implies the parents chose to leave, not died; not interchangeable for the literal sense
文法句型
orphaned [child / animal]
be orphaned (at age N)
用法筆記
Frequently used attributively before a noun (orphaned child, orphaned puppy) or in passive form with an age or cause (was orphaned at five, was orphaned by the war). The figurative use for unmaintained projects or data files is now common in technology contexts.
常見錯誤
orphaned — 名詞
1. a child whose mother and father have both died, especially one who is still too
孤兒
父母雙亡、年紀尚小的孩子
a child whose mother and father have both died, especially one who is still too young to take care of himself or herself.
Christopher grew up as an orphan and was raised by his grandmother in a small mountain town.
Christopher 自小是孤兒，由住在山中小鎮的祖母帶大。
common pattern: grew up as an orphan
The civil war left thousands of orphans, and the church opened its doors to as many as it could shelter.
那場內戰留下了數以千計的孤兒，教會盡可能多地收容他們。
collocation: left thousands of orphans
An orphan named Pedro was adopted last month by a kind family from the next town.
一個名叫 Pedro 的孤兒上個月被隔壁鎮上一戶善良的家庭收養了。
Ritu became an orphan at the age of four when a long illness killed both her parents.
Ritu 在四歲時成了孤兒，因為一場長期的病奪走了她的雙親。
- foundling
old-fashioned; a baby found abandoned with unknown parents
文法句型
an orphan
[N] orphans
用法筆記
Distinguish from sense 2 (young animal): sense 1 always refers to a human child. The word can sound formal or literary in modern conversation; people often say 'lost both her parents' instead.
常見錯誤
2. a baby animal whose mother is dead or has disappeared and that therefore cannot
失母幼獸
母獸已死或失蹤的幼小動物
a baby animal whose mother is dead or has disappeared and that therefore cannot feed itself yet.
Zuri raised the elephant orphan with a special milk formula for nearly two years.
Zuri 用特製的奶粉照顧那隻失母的小象長達將近兩年。
collocation: raise an orphan + animal type
The wildlife centre takes in orphans of all kinds — owls, foxes, baby deer, and the occasional bear cub.
這個野生動物中心收容各種孤雛——貓頭鷹、狐狸、小鹿，偶爾還有熊寶寶。
Ilan found a tiny kitten orphan under the porch and brought it inside to warm up.
Ilan 在門廊下發現一隻失母的小貓咪，便把牠帶進屋裡取暖。
Bottle-feeding an orphan calf every four hours kept Lara up most of the night.
每四個小時用奶瓶餵一次那隻失母的小牛，讓 Lara 整夜幾乎沒闔眼。
文法句型
an orphan + [animal noun]
用法筆記
Subject is always a young mammal that depends on its mother for food. Distinguish from sense 1 (human child) by the surrounding animal vocabulary (cub, calf, lamb, kitten, etc.).
3. someone or something that has lost the protection, funding, or support that othe
棄兒
失去保護或資源、被體制忽略的人事物
someone or something that has lost the protection, funding, or support that other people in the same group still enjoy — used figuratively.
After the budget cut, the rural arts programmes became orphans of the new cultural policy.
預算刪減之後，那些鄉村藝術計畫成了新文化政策下被遺忘的一群。
figurative: orphans of + abstract context
Rin called these workers the orphans of the digital economy because no union spoke for them.
Rin 把這些勞工稱為數位經濟下的棄兒，因為沒有任何工會為他們發聲。
figurative: orphans of + system / economy
The small libraries felt like orphans once the city stopped sending them new books.
當市政府不再寄送新書時，那些小型圖書館感覺自己像是被遺忘了。
Asher described his old neighbourhood as an orphan of the city's rebuilding plan.
Asher 形容他從前居住的社區是這座城市重建計畫中的棄兒。
- castaway
more literary; emphasises being thrown out rather than being forgotten
文法句型
an orphan of [something]
orphans of [event / institution]
用法筆記
Always figurative — the subject is an institution, group, region, or programme, not a person literally without parents. Often used in journalism or policy writing with the pattern 'orphans of [system / event]'.
orphaned — 動詞
1. to cause a child or young animal to lose both parents — usually used in the pass
使成孤兒
讓孩童或幼獸失去雙親的行為
to cause a child or young animal to lose both parents — usually used in the passive, with the cause that killed the parents.
The earthquake orphaned hundreds of children in a single afternoon.
那場地震在一個下午之內就讓數百名孩童成為孤兒。
active: [event] + orphaned + [N children]
Rania was orphaned by a car crash on the highway when she was only six years old.
Rania 六歲那年因為一場高速公路上的車禍而成為孤兒。
passive: be orphaned by [cause]
Disease orphaned many young elephants in the reserve, and the rangers had to feed them by hand.
疾病使保護區內許多小象失去母親，巡護員只好親手餵養牠們。
Femi and his brother were orphaned in the same week and went to live with their aunt.
Femi 和他哥哥在同一週內成為孤兒，後來搬去和姑姑同住。
The long war had orphaned a whole generation of village children by the time it ended.
等到那場漫長的戰爭結束時，村裡整整一個世代的孩子都已經失去雙親。
文法句型
be orphaned by [event / cause]
orphan [someone]
用法筆記
Frequently passive; the active subject is almost always an event (war, accident, disease, disaster) rather than a person. The agent — when named — appears with 'by': 'orphaned by the fire'.