Slavery
['sleɪv(ə)rɪ] or ['slevəri]
解释:
(noun.) the practice of owning slaves.
(noun.) work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay.
德布斯录入--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another.
(n.) A condition of subjection or submission characterized by lack of freedom of action or of will.
(n.) The holding of slaves.
亨廷顿编辑
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Bondage, servitude, vassalage, serfdom, thraldom, inthralment, enslavement, captivity.[2]. Drudgery.
安娜贝拉录入
同义词及反义词：
[See BONDAGE]
手打:萨拜娜
例句:
- Talk of the _abuses_ of slavery! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- The cotton-gin probably had much to do with the justification of slavery. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Lord Mansfield declared that slavery was a condition unknown to English law, an odious condition, and Somersett walked out of the court a free man. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Well, I do; but it is a very pleasant kind of slavery. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Other writers, of a different stamp, with great learning and gravity, endeavoured to prove to the English people that slavery was _jure divino_. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- The deepest revolt implied in the term syndicalism is against the impersonal, driven quality of modern industry--against the destruction of that pride which alone distinguishes work from slavery. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- In the matter of slavery; all nations had slaves; some treated them very cruelly, some with moderate cruelty. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- The excess of liberty, whether in States or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- It was certainly the act of an insane man to attempt the invasion of the South, and the overthrow of slavery, with less than twenty men. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Thus liberty, getting out of all order and reason, passes into the harshest and bitterest form of slavery. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- The women, like his own wife, who had sewed by day and night, were saved their strength and vision, and the slavery of the clothing factories, notorious in those days, was inestimably lightened. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- There was no labour slavery, no gang servitude. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It is possible that the question of a conflict between races may come up in the future, as did that between freedom and slavery before. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- I think Henrique, now, has a keener sense of the beauty of truth, from seeing lying and deception the universal badge of slavery. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
艾莉森编辑