词汇 | thrall |
释义 | thrall noun[ U ] uk /θrɔːl/ us /θrɑːl/ in thrallliterary If you are in thrall to someone or something, or in the thrall of someone or something, he, she, or it has a lot of power to control you: (被某人或某物)束缚;奴役 Her love for him was like a madness, and she was completely in its thrall.她爱他如痴如狂,完全不能自拔。 Power to control absolute authority ahold all's well that ends wellidiom all-powerful ascendancy authoritarianism discretionary driven girl power grip he who pays the piper calls the tune.idiom implant power base power grab power structure power struggle power-sharing the hand that rocks the cradle rules the worldidiom the upper hand yoke Examples of thrallthrall Equally, they were by no means totally in thrall to populist sentiment. These conservatives were then joined by ' ' growth liberals ' ' in developing a model of city development in thrall to corporate interests. Insofar as he was a dualist, it was not because he wanted to keep part of the social world in the thrall of non-scientific beliefs. She reveals the entrapment of children in a consumer society, which leaves them relatively powerless, and in thrall to the illusion of choice and the orchestration of desire. Our current thrall with identities in the past, and the difficulties in penetrating those identities, are a reflection, or transferral, of our anxieties and interests in the present. In arguing for that philosophy one is in thrall to the grand myth of rationality and thereby one abandons the very philosophy that one is arguing in favour of. It is producer-oriented rather than consumer-oriented, and it is in thrall to the unions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have, in addition to that, a system of deferred rebates by which they are held continually in thrall to that same builders' merchant. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That economy continues to be in thrall to deflationary forces, which have proved very difficult to throw off. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This report, in thrall to liberal orthodoxy, illustrates the cynicism of property owners and the miserable submission of reform policies to their lead. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English That situation puts the editors, or can put them, in thrall to the unions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not believe that they want to hold us in thrall in a relationship that we do not enjoy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It remains a party in thrall to economic illiteracy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But that is a quite different thing from being completely in thrall to the past. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are in the thrall of priorities and of priorities within priorities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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