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单词 slave
释义 slave
 —slaveless,  adj.   —slavelike,  adj.  
 /slayv/,  n.  ,  v.  , slaved, slaving.
  n.  
  1. a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; a bond servant.
  2. a person entirely under the domination of some influence or person: a slave to a drug.
  3. a drudge: a housekeeping slave.
  4. a slave ant.
  5.  Photog.   a subsidiary flash lamp actuated through its photoelectric cell when the principal flash lamp is discharged.
  6.  Mach.   a mechanism under control of and repeating the actions of a similar mechanism. Cf. master (def. 19).
  v.i.  
  7. to work like a slave; drudge.
  8. to engage in the slave trade; procure, transport, or sell slaves.
  v.t.  
  9. to connect (a machine) to a master as its slave.
  10.  Archaic.   to enslave.
 [1250-1300; ME sclave < ML sclavus (masc.), sclava (fem.) slave, special use of Sclavus Slav, so called because Slavs were commonly enslaved in the early Middle Ages; see SLAV]
 Syn. 7. toil, labor, slog, grind.
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