waif

1 It's not entirely surprising that the image of a bald, white-clad waif would be so indelible in the public mind.

2 “I could cover you with weeping sores,” the waif said, “but then innkeeps and taverners would chase you from their doors.”

3 Kira remembered the power of the singing voice that she had heard, and marveled that it had come from this tiny, frightened waif of a thing.

4 Walter Keane's paintings of waifs with big tearful eyes were frowned on by art critics, but their huge popular success made him a fortune.

5 The little princesses who were mistaken for maids, and the long-lost children mistaken for waifs, became more real to me than our house, our mother, our school or Mr. Freeman.

6 In the German songs by Hugo Wolf and Richard Strauss, the transparent top range of Piau’s voice was beautifully suited to incarnate every sort of elf, naiad, night spirit, and lost waif possible.

7 Seeing these three waifs in their cast-off state broke her heart a little.

8 There were some who insisted that domestic service guaranteed moral order, just as in Edwardian times charitable foundations such as Barnardo's saved the souls of city waifs by sending them into service.

9 The early ’90s announced a more stripped-down view of fashion — call it grunge, if you like — and the waif Kate fit the bill as she inspired an industry.

10 Neurotic, erotic and dangerous, Karen brings to mind the kooky princess waifs once played onstage by Julie Harris and on film by Tuesday Weld.

11 Ever since, his meditative stories about society’s waifs and strays have blurred the line between mainstream movies and arthouse cinema.

12 “Remember those? Used to come through a while ago with all those homeless waifs? I went to the Grange Hall in Albans once to see ’em.

13 “That is none of your business, you waif. Why aren’t you in school? Kindly stop molesting me. Anyway, I have no change.”

14 waif-like young girls

面黄肌瘦的女孩子

15 Only moments later, I was wearing a black dress and heels, and Harry had been transformed from a waif in baggy clothes to the smartly dressed boy prodigy that we knew him to be.

16 Greenson decided at this point that Marilyn was at base an adolescent waif who acted irresponsibly, sulking or throwing tantrums when crossed.

17 The typical TV dream of New York is a high fashion costume fantasy where even the struggling waifs have good cheekbones.

18 Lily Elsie was an unhappy British waif, most famous for playing the heroine in the operetta “The Merry Widow.”

19 Telling one coin from another by touch alone was one of the first things the waif had taught her, after they took away her eyes.

20 She had smell and touch and taste to help her, but touch and taste could be perilous when grinding poisons, and with some of the waif’s more toxic concoctions even smell was less than safe.

1 流浪儿童

ragamuffin wastrel muckworm

2 无家可归的人

stray outcast derelict

3 流浪儿

stray ragamuffin wastrel

4 风信旗

vane waft

5 漂流物

drift wreck wreckage drifter driftage

6 流浪狗

pie-dog

7 流浪者

stray drummer sooner pilgrim tinker rover nomad gypsy Bohemian wanderer outcast tramp derelict loafer vagrant hobo Bedouin whaler vagabond runabout plainer flotsam bagman vag swagman caird dosser clochard vagabondage dero runagate stewbum swaggie jew stroller bohemian drifter bedouin castaway pariah canter vagrancy piker peregrinate roadster

8 野狗

pye-dog pi-dog cur tyke

9 信号

signal call word office reminder token cue whistle beacon signage waft semaphore sign command intelligence weft intelligence signal storm drum

10 无家可归者

Arab stray guttersnipe hobo skell outie

11 野猫

alley cat