slave
美音:
[sleıv
]英音:
[sleıv
]n.奴隶 v.辛勤努力
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词形变化:
动词过去式:slaved 过去分词:slaved 现在分词:slaving 第三人称单数:slaves
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slave
/sleɪv; slev/
n
1 person who is the property of another and is forced to work for him 奴隶
*treat sb like a slave 像对待奴隶一样对待某人
* [attrib 作定语] slave labour, owners 奴隶的劳动、奴隶主.
2 ~ of/to sth person whose way of life is dominated by (a habit, an interest, etc) 生活方式受(习惯、兴趣等)支配的人
*a slave to duty, convention, drink 被职务、习俗、杯中物所左右的人
* a slave of fashion, ie person who wears only the latest fashions 赶穿时髦服装的人.
v [I, Ipr, Ip] ~ (away) (at sth) work very hard 刻苦工作; 苦干
*slaving (away) in the garden for hours 在花园苦干了数小时
* I've been slaving at the housework all day. 我整天都在干繁重的家务活儿.
1. The fourth time he fell into the hands of a professional slave-catcher, who promptly had the man´s foot cut off with an axe against a tree stump. 第四次逃跑时,他落到了一个职业奴隶捕手的手上。那人立即用斧头将他的一只脚放在树桩上砍了下来。
2. The questions include: "Have you ever been a controlled substance (drug) salesman, or a sex slave or pimp?" 其问题包括:你做过受管制药物(毒品)的推销员吗?
3. The terrible war that made me an American instead of a slave said "On the line!" 这场使我从黑奴变为美国公民的可怕战争对我叫道"各就各位!"
4. You´re the slave of money. 你是钱的奴隶.
5. "You are like a murderer -- you are like a slave-driver!" “你真像个杀人犯——你像个奴隶主。”
6. On that plantation the African married Belle, the house cook, another slave. 在那个种植园,“老非洲”娶了一个名叫贝尔的奴隶,她是这个家的厨娘。
7. One afternoon I was on the 1023rd set of slave-ship records when I found a sheet listing 30 ship movements. 一天下午,在第1023套运奴船的记录中我找到了一个列着30艘船的活动的单子。
8. It was a hideous act, but it helped the African to stay put on one plantation, since no calculating planter would care to part with a crippled slave for the current price of one dollar. 这是一种惨不忍睹的暴行,但却使他在一家种植园呆了下来。因为没有一个精于算计的种植园主,会愿意为了一个美元而卖掉一个瘸腿的奴隶。
9. In the slave-cabin, he would point out a banjo or a guitar and say one syllable, ko, and in time the little girl came to associate ko with a banjo or a guitar. 在奴隶居住的小木屋里,他会指着一个班卓琴或是一把吉他用一个音节ko来代替。经过一段时间,小女孩开始把ko和班卓琴或吉他联系起来。
10. I found "the King´s soldiers" which the village elder spoke of were Colonel O´Hara´s forces, which had been sent from London to the Gambia River to guard the British fort, James Slave Fort, and the date — 1767 — was right on. 我发现村里老者说到的“国王的军队”就是上校奥里尔的部队,他们是从伦敦被派到冈比亚河去保卫英国要塞詹姆士堡的,所记载的日期恰好是1767年,完全吻合。
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