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单词 waif
释义  waif /weɪf/ noun [countable]  1. THIN PERSONsomeone, especially a child, who is pale and thin and looks as if they do not have a home 苍白瘦弱的人〔似为无家可归者，尤指小孩〕2  waifs and strays British EnglishSSCDHP children or animals who do not have a home 无家可归的小孩[动物] She loved cats, and would take any waifs and strays into her home. 她喜欢猫，什么流浪猫都会带回家去养。Examples from the Corpuswaif• Do I look like a waif?• Louise looks like a waif and has indulged in more booze and cigarettes than she should have.• He also made a special study of the outcasts, the waifs and strays of industrial society the vagrants and the idiots.• All her images of a tiny waif locked in the attic seemed suddenly foolish and fantastic.• Lavant plays a vagrant waif, Binoche a runaway painter.Origin waif (1300-1400) Old North French (adjective), “lost, unclaimed”, from a Scandinavian languagewaif nounChinese  a pale Corpus is thin who child, especially and someone, and
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