| 词汇 | servitude |
| 释义 | servitude noun[ U ] formaluk /ˈsɜː.vɪ.tʃuːd/ us /ˈsɝː.və.tuːd/ the state of being under the control of someone else and of having no freedom: 苦役；奴役；劳役 In the past, the majority of women were consigned to a lifetime of servitude and poverty.过去，大多数的女性一生含辛茹苦，一贫如洗。 Lack of freedom to act be in bondage to somethingidiom be locked in something bondage bound boxed in disempowering disenfranchisement heel lock non-voluntary nonindependence regimented shackle someone's hands are tiedidiom tethered thumb tie tie someone to something/someone tool unfreedom servitude | American Dictionaryservitude noun[ U ] us/ˈsɜr·vˌtud/ the state of being under the control of someone else and of having no freedom; the condition of a slave Examples of servitudeservitude But a warning to those who prefer servitude, or become partisans of the enemy, for we will remove your heads. The order would appear to have bordered on impressment and amounted to bonded servitude for the duration of the war if necessary. Certainly, in some sense, more than seventy years of penal servitude have been handed out. By its very nature it is dedicated to destroying what is essential to jahiliyya: the servitude of human to - human. Most were enemies of the traditional patriarchal order and all it stood for - old-style family life, police rule, human servitude. Their "mutual servitude" can easily slip into reciprocal idolatry, however. That would be servitude for the minority and tyranny for the majority, rather than liberty for all. Some detainees eagerly agreed to perform onerous physical tasks, so better to illuminate the abject servitude in which they lived. It is incumbent on the judicial authorities to obtain, without the fullest proof of free will, from countenancing the servitude of any individual entitled to freedom. Rustam's account gives valuable insight into the personal experience of forced servitude, complementing, and at times contradicting commonly held assumptions. Clearly, if a husband was deaf to persuasion, resolved to push his prerogatives to the utmost, then marriage could mean miserable servitude for his unlucky wife. During, but especially after the gold rushes, disappointed diggers wanted their own land rather than returning to wage servitude in the burgeoning cities or as rural labourers. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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