Servitude
['sɜːvɪtjuːd] or ['sɝvətud]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) state of subjection to an owner or master or forced labor imposed as punishment; 'penal servitude'.
校對:齐利格--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The state of voluntary or compulsory subjection to a master; the condition of being bound to service; the condition of a slave; slavery; bondage; hence, a state of slavish dependence.
(n.) Servants, collectively.
(n.) A right whereby one thing is subject to another thing or person for use or convenience, contrary to the common right.
整理:尼古拉斯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Slavery, bondage, thraldom, enthralment, enslavement, serfdom, vassalage.
校對:拉里
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Service, subordination, obedience, ministry, submission
ANT:Mastery, lordship, command, dictation, sway, rule, government
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例句/造句/用法:
- There was no labour slavery, no gang servitude. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But I did not love my servitude: I wished, many a time, he had continued to neglect me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Shall Hellas, Mother of the West, In servitude ignoble rest? 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Out of men's afflictions and affections were forged the rivets of their servitude. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Later, Gyges rebelled against Assyria, and sent troops to help Psammetichus I to liberate Egypt from its brief servitude to the Assyrians. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Only after a long period of servitude did a popular uprising expel these foreigners again. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- A new servitude! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The favoured countries of the south will throw off the iron yoke of servitude; poverty will quit us, and with that, sickness. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- He had a strong desire to escape from his bondage, and, after five years of servitude, found the opportunity. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Today, however, it renewed the sense of servitude which the previous night's review of her cheque-book had produced. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- But Servitude! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The luxury of command and the attentions of servitude were lost. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- He held me to certain months of servitude, which were his lawful term of notice. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Thus liberty, when out of all order and reason, passes into the worst form of servitude. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
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