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I have this sentence from tangorin. It an example sentence from sabishii:

> 彼女は彼が寂しく思い忘れられてしまうのではないかと思ったのです

The translation is:

> She thought he might be feeling lonely and forgotten.

I don't get this part: 寂しく思い忘れられてしまうのではないか  
What is the omoi part role in this? How come this translation got like that?
There's nothing connecting 寂しく思い and 忘れられてしまうのではない, is this an idiomatic
expression?
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Can someone help me with this sentence?
> 「彼女は彼が寂しく思い忘れられてしまうのではないかと思ったのです。」

is an unusually ambiguous sentence to be used as an example sentence in a
dictionary.

More specifically, I do not think the correlation between "feeling loney" and
"getting forgotten" is universally understood (and therefore unsuitable for
use in a dictionary). This, I feel, is the reason that I, though a native
speaker, have no idea _**who is getting forgotten by whom**_ here.

This sentence could mean both:

> "She thought that **he** might feel lonely and ( **he also** ) might be
> forgotten." and
>
> "She thought that **he** might feel loney and that **she** might be
> forgotten by him."

And neither one makes much sense to me.
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