helot
/hel-uht, hee-luht/US // ˈhɛl ət, ˈhi lət //UK // (ˈhɛlət, ˈhiː-) //
劳工,劳工组织,劳工部,劳工局
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a member of the lowest class in ancient Laconia, constituting a body of serfs who were bound to the land and were owned by the state.Compare Perioeci, Spartiate.
- : helot, a serf or slave; bondman.
Synonyms & Antonyms
as invassal
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Examples
His cheeks bright red, his chin wet with spittle, the helot would weave and stagger and totter until he passed out in the dirt.
Little by little, he had become to his wife so indulgent and so affectionate, that the poor helot felt her heart touched.
It may actually have been the unfortunate fall to which the helot owed his death.
It would be, I expected, such a sight as that which the drunken Helot once presented to the virtuous Spartan youth.
In the boat were Thorkeld, a helot of Iona, and two dark wild-eyed men of the north.
Thus sacrificing one class to the other, both were injured,—the imperious Spartan and the abased Helot.
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