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slavery

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n.奴隶身分,奴隶制度,苦役,束缚

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bondage  serfdom  servitude  liberty    

slavery


/'sleɪvərɪ; `slevərɪ/
n [U]
1 condition of being a slave 受奴役的状态
*sold into slavery 被卖为奴隶.
2 practice of having slaves 奴隶制
*people working to abolish slavery 为废除奴隶制而奋斗的人们.
3 hard or poorly paid work 苦役; 报酬低的工作. Cf 参看 white slavery (white1).

slavery


n[U]
the system of having slaves
 attempts to abolish slavery (=officially end it)
the state of being a slave
sell sb into slavery
(=sell someone as a slave)
1. When work is a pleasure , life is joy ! When work is duty , life is slavery .(Maxim Gorky , Russian writer )
    工作是一种乐趣时,生活是一种享受!工作是一种义务时,生活则是一种苦役。(俄国作家 高尔基. M.)

2. They lived in slavery.
    他们过奴隶生活。

3. Have the slaves really got freedom after the abolition of slavery?
    奴隶制废除以后, 奴隶们真的获得了自由吗?

4. He is in a state of virtual slavery.
    他实际上处于一种被奴役的状态。

5. He wasn´t far away from his village, he said, chopping wood, when he was set upon by four men, kidnapped, and taken into slavery.
    他说,那时他正在离村子不远的地方砍柴,四个人向他扑去,把他绑走,他从此沦为奴隶。

6. All humanitarians fought against slavery.
    所有人道主义者都为反对奴隶制而斗争过。

7. Slavery is something sixty years in the past.
    奴隶制是60年前的事了。

8. Slavery is the price I paid for civilization, and the choice was not with me.
    黑奴的历史是我为文明生活所付的代价,而作出这一选择的并不是我。

9. If you knew the story of how these people had been snatched from their thriving lands and sold into slavery, and if you saw that the Black Americans and the Black Africans were after all of one people, then you really needed to start by weeping, beca
    如果你了解这些人当年是如何从他们富庶的土地上被抓走,被卖做了奴隶;如果你意识到美国黑人和非洲黑人实际上是一个民族,那么你一定会失声痛哭,因为任何语言都无法描述我们民族历史上的那段悲惨遭遇。

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