foundling
发音
英 [ˈfaʊndlɪŋ]
美 [ˈfaʊndlɪŋ]
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- n.
- 弃儿，育婴堂
单词词源
foundling 弃婴
found, 找到。-ling, 小词后缀。用于指弃婴。
双语例句
- 1. Thomas coram 's foundling hospital opened in 1741 to look after the abandoned babies of unmarried mothers , attracting support from the cream of society .
- 托马斯.coram的育婴医院于1741年成立，专门收养未婚妈妈们的弃婴，寻求社会精英的支持。
- 2. Foundling wheels were an artefact of medieval times ; but they reappeared in 2000 in hamburg , where a lot of abandoned babies were dying .
- 弃婴轮盘本是中世纪时期的产物，但是2000年，它又出现在了德国汉堡，在那里，很多被抛弃的新生儿奄奄一息。
- 3. In other pictures , thomson captured the sorry inmates of a " foundling " hospital where orphaned children were offered for free to " respectable people " , and a public street slide-show where the public could see images from exotic and faraway places often to gasps of amazement .
- 在其它照片中，汤姆森抓拍了育婴堂里苦难的儿童，他们被无偿送给“体面人家”；还有大街上拉洋片的，大伙可以在里面看到外国和遥远的地方，常常看得目瞪口呆。