音标:[ˈɔ:fənɪdʒz] ;
n. 孤儿院( orphanage的复数形式 )
n. the condition of being a child without living parents
n. a public institution for the care of orphans

AS IT IS 2014-11-30 Americans Can Again Adopt Vietnamese Children 美国人再次可以收养越南儿童 After being blocked since 2008, Americans can once again adopt children from Vietnam. Adoptions ended six years ago when Vietnam and the United

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VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: Garment workers in Takoe province, Cambodia, sing a song Monday during a campaign to celebrate International Women's Day. Campaigners marched for the right to food for all people living with HIV/AIDS, especially

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Helping others is probably not a top priority for most American 12 year olds. But that's not the case with Ashlee Smith of Reno, Nevada, who's been making a difference in the lives of other children since she was just eight. Several years ago, when f

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Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. I'm Robin Basselin. Voice 2 And I'm Ryan Geertsma. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 In 1989, the government o

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China's civil authorities are to overhaul the non-government orphanages nationwide after a deadly fire in central China's Henan province. The month-long campaign is to inspect private orphanages after seven children were killed in a fire at an orphan

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A month-long nationwide inspection of orphanages run by individuals and private operators is carried out throughout China after a private orphanage fire in Henan Province claimed seven lives. China is struggling to upgrade children's welfare by estab

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玛丽莲梦露(Marilyn Monroe,1926-1962),1926年6月1日出生在加利福尼亚州洛杉矶市,美国女演员。 1946年7月19日,玛丽莲梦露第一次到20世纪福克斯,开始出演电影。1949年,梦露参与拍摄影片《夜

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And China's population is coming under control, but there are consequences no one intended. Couples often feel they must have a boy. That's because boys traditionally carry on the family name, provide labor and stay with parents in their old age, a k

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An eight-month-old boy found in the ruins three days after the earthquake. Doctors here at this Israeli field hospital in Port-au-Prince did what they could to avoid amputating his leg. But his injuries were just too severe, his parents' whereabouts

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For 15-year-old John Omary holding a crocodile was something he never imagined he would do The African Fund for Endangered Wildlife in Kenya hosts a program that enables children from underprivileged backgrounds to visit conservation sites around the

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China's civil authorities are to overhaul the non-government orphanages nationwide after a deadly fire in central China's Henan province. The month-long campaign is to inspect private orphanages after seven children were killed in a fire at an orphan

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Easter Sunday was a cloudy but festive day in Memorial Park for about 100 kids from local orphanages. An Easter egg hunt started at 10 a.m. when a fire engine blasted its horn. Boys and girls, ranging in age from 2 to 6, dashed throughout the park, y

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18th-century courtship 18世纪的窈窕淑女,君子好逑 An inept Pygmalion 笨手笨脚的皮格马利翁 A darkly amusing tale about the struggle to create the perfect wife 让人苦笑的故事:努力为自己打造一个完美妻子 How to

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KATHMANDU, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Ban on smoking in public places will be enforced from Sunday with the Tobacco Control and Regulatory Act-2010 coming into effect. Those smoking in public places will be fined and civil servants will be liable to departme

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Most adoptions from China now special-needs cases Not long ago, the choices facing Robert and Julie Garrett would have been simpler. Once they set their hearts on adopting a child from China, the odds were high that they could soon bring home a healt

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Lillian Weber makes a dress from scratch every single day so that a child in need will have something beautiful to wear. 莉莉安韦伯为了贫困地区的孩子有漂亮衣服穿,坚持每天为他们做一件新衣服。 Throughout the last few

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Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson in the charity ward of a Los Angeles hospital in 1926. Her career as an actor and singer made her an icon of the twentieth century. Her trademark looks helped her become one of Hollywoods greatest ever se

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Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. I'm Robin Basselin. Voice 2 And I'm Ryan Geertsma. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 In 1989, the government o

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Would Americans Let Edible Insects Come to Dinner? It may sound sickening to some of you, but many people can and do eat insects. Edible insects are a great source of high quality protein and minerals known to be important to good health, like calciu

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