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slaving

/sleyv/US // sleɪv //UK // (sleɪv) //

奴隶制,奴役,奴工,奴役性

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another and forced to provide unpaid labor.
    • : a person entirely under the domination of some influence or person: She was a slave to her own ambition.
    • : a drudge: a housekeeping slave.
    • : a slave ant.
    • : Photography. a subsidiary flash lamp actuated through its photoelectric cell when the principal flash lamp is discharged.
    • : Machinery, Computers. a device or process under control of or repeating the actions of a similar device or process.Compare master.
v.无主动词 verb
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    slaved, slav·ing.

    • : to work like a slave; drudge.
    • : to engage in the slave trade; procure, transport, or sell slaves.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    slaved, slav·ing.

    • : Machinery, Computers. to connect to a master as its slave.
    • : Archaic. to enslave.

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Examples

  • While the finds from the genetic study are largely supported by established narratives and historic records of the transatlantic slave trade, there were also inconsistencies.

  • Lawmakers, in fact, passed the Fugitive Slave Act two years after statehood, creating a legal mechanism for the return of slaves to their owners.

  • For the first half of the 19th century, the Senate was a bulwark for the South, with an equal balance of slave and free states despite the growing Northern population advantage.

  • The Republican Party was the party of Lincoln, the emancipated slaves.

  • According to various estimates, almost 17,000 people among the peak 50,000 population were slaves – who not only worked in households but also in the harbor and storage facilities.

  • After the last magnet was retrieved, she assumed slave posture and waited for Couple to unclasp the clamps.

  • She reassumed slave posture while Couple grabbed two magnetized clamps and a collection of circular magnets from a nearby shelf.

  • After tightening her collar, Stella assumed slave posture: on her knees, legs slightly spread, palm resting face-up on her thighs.

  • Now that Collette had left La Domaine, who was she a slave to, Collette or R?

  • He said, too, that after being accepted as a slave to Mistress Couple, he has made massive strides psychologically.

  • Gallinas, the noted slave factory on the west of Africa, purchased by the Liberian republic.

  • If he is indifferent to my happiness, and unjust to the woman I love, I will no longer work like a slave for him.

  • Although the number of slaves in the Brazils is very great, there is nowhere such a thing as a slave-market.

  • In Brazil, the slave-trade exists in full force; in Cuba, it is unmitigated in its extent and horrors.

  • In 1813, some disputes arose between the court of Rio and England on account of the slave trade.