waif / weɪf /

📖毕业后词汇娃儿流浪者娃儿们流浪汉

waif 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a person, especially a child, who has no home or friends.
  2. something found, especially a stray animal, whose owner is not known.
  3. a very thin, often small person, usually a young woman.
  4. a stray item or article: to gather waifs of gossip.
  5. Nautical. waft.

waif 近义词

n. 名词 noun

lost or unclaimed person or thing

更多waif例句

  1. Ann is an opera singer, fragile and captivating onstage, somewhere between waif and warrior.
  2. Her scruffy waif look was as far as possible from the sophisticated luxury of her childhood.
  3. A tiny quiver of the eyelids, and a tremor through the thin hands and Mysie—poor ruined broken waif of the world—was gone.
  4. I have heard a waif word in the country,” said I, a little nettled, “that you were a hard man to drive.
  5. My waif was curled up in my kimono, feeding my fan-tailed goldfish.
  6. You were a little waif, fed cake and tea at the millionaire's table.
  7. Woman, divorced from home, wanders unfriended like a waif upon the wave.