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单词 bondage
释义
bondage
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n

Bondage is the state of being bound, like a slave. If you're in handcuffs, you're in bondage.
The word bondage has meant "condition of a serf or slave" since the 1300s, the same time the word bond came along to mean "anything that binds." Bondage originated around the time Dante was writing "The Inferno," in which Satan flaps his wings to try and break free of bondage, as he's stuck in ice up to his chest. Most people would like to be free of any kind of bondage, which is why the X-Ray Spex (a punk band from the '70s) yell, "Oh bondage, up yours!"
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bondage: bondages
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Modern slavery has become a catch-all term to describe human trafficking, forced labor, debt bondage, sex trafficking, forced marriage and other slave-like exploitation.
Reuters(Nov 28, 2016)
Stanton was best known for his bondage work on comic strips like “Sweeter Gwendolyn” and “Confidential TV.”
New York Times(Oct 27, 2016)
If these were men being held in bondage the world would be up in arms.
New York Times(Oct 18, 2016)
1n the state of being under the control of another person
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
slavery, 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
servitude
state of subjection to an owner or master or forced labor imposed as punishment
serfdom, serfhood, vassalage
the state of a serf
villainage, villeinage
the legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or feudal serf
subjection, subjugation
forced submission to control by others
2n sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners
Hyper
sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice
activities associated with sexual intercourse
3n the state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power
he was in bondage to fear:
he sought release from his bondage to Satan
a self freed from the bondage of time
Hyper
subjection, subjugation
forced submission to control by others
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