thrall 的 3 个定义
- a person who is morally or mentally enslaved by some power, influence, or the like: He was the thrall of morbid fantasies.
- a person held in bondage or slavery.
- slavery; thralldom.
- the condition of being in the power of something or someone; a state of subjugation or rapt absorption: We will receive no help from the media, who are for the most part in thrall to the political establishment.
- Archaic. to put or hold in thralldom; enslave.
- Archaic. subjected to bondage; enslaved.
thrall 近义词
bondage
更多thrall例句
- It is the process by which rock stars gain priest-like powers over massive congregations while putting the congregants into ever greater thrall.
- Although the characters are in the thrall of big emotions — anger, desperation, repression and guilt — the words they use to articulate their feelings are fairly drab.
- Now both are in thrall to a base that has been encouraged to reject the simplest defensive measures.
- It’s a showdown that would have me in thrall even if the venue were some meaningless, late summer meet in Europe.
- They are an elusive bunch, in motion or in the thrall of another time.
- The sheikh is ready to flee if the Lebanese security forces, considered to be in thrall to Hezbollah, make a move to arrest him.
- Most natives speak Russian as their first language, and are more in thrall to Russian culture than Ukrainian.
- Nathan Thrall, from the International Crisis Group, is even more skeptical.
- Thrall is right to imply that the Olmert-Abbas principles were a only start and there is no guarantee that starting is succeeding.
- Then the Earl departed and a thrall of his named Kark bore him company.
- Thereupon dug the thrall a large ditch in the sty & carried away the earth, and afterwards placed wood across it.
- But bad fortune overtook Mr. Croker and the eighteen who then held him in partial thrall.
- Well had he said to himself that night in May: "La belle Dame sans mercy hath thee in thrall."
- The Teutonic race had a myth which explained the origin of the classes eorl, ceorl and thrall (earl, churl and slave).