| 单词 | slavery |
| 释义 | slavery (once / 165 pages) n Slavery is the brutal practice of forcing someone to work hard without paying them a fair wage, sometimes without paying them at all. For hundreds of years in the United States, wealthy white landowners benefited from the institution of slavery, which forced millions of African slaves to work their entire lives on giant farms. The word slavery comes from the Latin sclava, meaning “Slavonic captive,” referring to the 9th century slavery of Slavonic people, but it came to mean anyone in captivity, not just Slavs. To be held captive and unable to pursue your own life is slavery, and it’s worth fighting against. WORD FAMILYslavery: slaveries+/enslave: enslaved, enslavement, enslaves, enslaving/enslavement: enslavements/slave: enslave, non-slave, slaved, slaveless, slavelike, slaver, slavery, slaves, slaving, slavish/slaver: slavered, slavering, slavers/slavish: slavishly USAGE EXAMPLESWhat’s a Kanye West song doing in a TV show about slavery? Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) The title of the first, by Ava DuVernay, refers to the 13th amendment to the constitution, which outlaws slavery in the US. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) Before slavery was restricted by the Spanish crown, in 1542, slaving parties scoured Honduras, kidnapping Indians to work plantations, mines, and households. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) 1n the state of being under the control of another person Syn|Hypo|Hyper bondage, thraldom, thrall, thralldom bonded labor a practice in which employers give high-interest loans to workers whose entire families then labor at low wages to pay off the debt; the practice is illegal in the United States servitudestate of subjection to an owner or master or forced labor imposed as punishment serfdom, serfhood, vassalagethe state of a serf villainage, villeinagethe legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or feudal serf subjection, subjugation forced submission to control by others 2n the practice of owning slaves Syn|Hyper slaveholding pattern, practice a customary way of operation or behavior 3n work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay Hyper labor, labour, toil productive work (especially physical work done for wages) |
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