英 [ˈpeərəntlɪs]
adj. 无父母的
parentless /ˈpɛərəntˌlɪs/
形容词 having no living parents; orphaned 无父母的
having no parent or parents or not cared for by parent surrogates
同义词： unparented
无父母的(parentless), 此释义来源于网络辞典。
parental 父母亲的，父母的；亲代的，亲本的
parent 父亲（或母亲）；父母亲；根源
parenthood 亲子关系；父母身分
OVER the past few years, a growing number of America's parentless children have found homes.
过去几年里，美国越来越多的没有父母的儿童找到了家。
In the thick of wartime, four children, Peter (William Moseley), Susan (Anna Popplewell), Edmund (Skandar Keynes), and Lucy (Georgie Henley), arrive, suitably parentless, at a country house.
Stuck between two conflicting legal systems, the baby, in effect, became stateless and parentless and there were major difficulties trying to get the baby through immigration into Britain.
The man we see is sad and vulnerable and ferocious all at once frightened as a virtually parentless boy in Brooklyn who was robbed by neighborhood kids, then remorseless as a baby gangster robbing drug dealers.