the act of making somebody a slave 使成为奴隶;奴役 In the US the enslavement of Africans and their descendants continued well into the second half of the 19th century. 在美国,对非洲人及其后裔的奴役一直持续到19世纪下半叶。
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the act of making somebody/something completely depend on something so that they cannot manage without it 使受控制;征服;制伏 the enslavement of man by technology 技术对人类的奴役