| 词汇 | slavery |
| 释义 | slavery noun[ U ] uk /ˈsleɪ.vər.i/ us /ˈsleɪ.vər.i/ C1 the activity of legally owning other people who are forced to work for or obey you: 奴隶制，蓄奴;奴隶身份 William Wilberforce campaigned for the abolition of slavery. Those states still had slavery. the condition of being legally owned by someone else and forced to work for or obey them: Millions of Africans were sold into slavery. These kids are victims. This is no better than slavery. See also modern slavery Beneath the surface of contemporary West Indian life lurk memories of slavery. His African-American parents had fled from Kentucky to escape slavery. St. Louis was one of the few Midwestern cities that had slavery. Shackles are one of the most potent symbols of slavery. The American Civil War was fought between the North and the South over the issue of slavery. France abolished slavery on 27 April 1848. Slavery still exists in many parts of the world. People who serve other people anti-slavery below/above stairsidiom boot boy butler dogsbody gofer handmaiden housemaid labourer lackey lady's maid retainer serf serfdom servant skivvy slave slaver valet vassal slavery | American Dictionaryslavery noun[ U ] us/ˈsleɪ·və·ri/ social studies the condition of being legally owned by someone else, or the system in which some people are owned by others Examples of slaveryslavery Slavery is here imagined as occurring within the mind, as lack of independence from a particular idea or way of thinking. The interplay of hierarchy and independence occurs in all of the incidents of employment attached to the offices charged with the enforcement of slavery. 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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