我忍不住会同情那些可怜的孤儿。

I cannot but feel sorry for those poor orphans.

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这些可怜的孤儿盼望能有一个家。

These poor orphans long for a family.

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慈悲的上帝在呵护可怜的孤儿。

God, in His mercy, protection is showing.

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So poor Lily is also an orphan, at least in the emotional sense, if not in actual reality. Her father, of course, had run off from her mother right after she had gotten pregnant, and then I suppose he came back.

可怜的莉莉也是个孤儿，至少从感情的角度上看是,如果你认为在现实情况不是，她的父亲，当然，在她母亲怀孕后,就开溜了，然后我猜测他又回来了。

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