waifs and straysBritish EnglishBrESSCDHP 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。
waifs and strays• He also made a special study of the outcasts, the waifs and strays of industrial society the vagrants and the idiots.
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