enslave
verb [usually passive]- enslave somebody
to make somebody a slave 使成为奴隶；奴役 - (formal)
to make somebody/something completely depend on something so that they cannot manage without it 使受控制；征服；制伏 - be enslaved (to something)
Our civilization remains enslaved to materialism. 我们的文明仍然受制于物质主义。
- be enslaved (to something)
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘make (a person) subject to a superstition, passion, etc.’; formerly also as inslave): from en-, in- (as an intensifier) + slave.