孤児

ORPHANこじ[/ˈɔrfən/]名詞

解説

によって親への忘恩の機会を奪われた生者。

この不幸は人の同情を特に強く呼び起こす。
幼い孤児は収容所に送られ、居場所を覚え、依存と従属を学び、
最終的には靴磨きや台所中として世に放たれる。

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Original

A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude—a privation appealing with a particular eloquence to all that is sympathetic in human nature. When young the orphan is commonly sent to an asylum, where by careful cultivation of its rudimentary sense of locality it is taught to know its place. It is then instructed in the arts of dependence and servitude and eventually turned loose to prey upon the world as a bootblack or scullery maid.

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