| 单词 | slave labour |
| 释义 | > as lemmasslave labour slave labour n. work, esp. hard physical work, carried out by enslaved people, or (hyperbolically) likened to this. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > forced, statute, or feudal work week-worklOE servicec1300 corvée1340 task-work1582 statute work1683 statute labour1729 statute duty1753 slave labour1820 forced labour1872 1680 J. Atkins in J. Wareing Indentured Migration & Servant Trade (2017) Introd. 4 (modernized text) Since people have found out the convenience and cheapness of slave-labour, they no longer keep white men, who used to do all the work on the plantations. 1820 Deb. Congr. U.S. 9 Feb. (1855) 1213 Free labor and slave labor cannot be employed together. 1871 C. Kingsley At Last II. xvi. 285 Exclusive sugar cultivation had put a premium on unskilled slave-labour. 1966 Daily Mail 24 Aug. 6/2 To be a houseman at Guy's is an honour awarded to top students... It is also, as elsewhere, slave labour at about 2s. 9d. an hour. 1982 F. McGuinness Factory Girls iii, in Plays: 1 (1996) 33 Rebecca You have some of us nearly blinded at the rates you expect us to keep up. Vera It's hardly work anymore. It's slave labour. 2010 New Yorker 1 Feb. 33/2 Its many factories had been converted to military use, with slave labor producing Luftwaffe bombsights, time-delay fuses, and other hardware. < as lemmas |
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