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a person who is owned by another person and is forced to work for them 奴隶 A former slave, he graduated from Clafflin University in South Carolina. 他曾是一名奴隶,毕业于南卡罗来纳州的克拉夫林大学。 She treated her daughter like a slave. 她对待女儿像对待奴隶一样。 a sex slave 性奴 slave owners 奴隶主 freed slaves 被解放的奴隶 Prisoners of war were regularly sold as slaves. 战俘经常被当作奴隶出售。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- escaped
- fugitive
- runaway
- …
- become
- have
- keep
- …
- labour/labor
- labourer/laborer
- master
- …
- slave of
- slave to
a person who is so strongly influenced by something that they cannot live without it, or cannot make their own decisions 完全受(某事物)控制的人;完全依赖(某事物)的人 - slave of something
We are slaves of the motor car. 我们离不了汽车。 - slave to something
Sue's a slave to fashion. 休是个拼命赶时髦的人。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- escaped
- fugitive
- runaway
- …
- become
- have
- keep
- …
- labour/labor
- labourer/laborer
- master
- …
- slave of
- slave to
- slave of something
- (specialist)
a device that is directly controlled by another one 从动装置
Word OriginMiddle English: shortening of Old French esclave, equivalent of medieval Latin sclava (feminine) ‘Slavonic (captive)’: the Slavonic peoples had been reduced to a servile state by conquest in the 9th cent.