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词汇 enslave
释义 enslave
verb[ Toften passive ]
uk /ɪnˈsleɪv/ us /ɪnˈsleɪv/
to force someone to remain in a bad situation : 使遭受;使无法摆脱
Women in this region were enslaved by poverty.这一地区的妇女备受贫困蹂躏。
to make a slave of someone: 奴役;使成为奴隶
The early settlers enslaved or killed much of the native population.早期的殖民者奴役或杀害了很多原住民。
literary
to control someone's actions, thoughts, emotions, or life completely: 控制;制服;制约
We are increasingly enslaved by technology.我们日益成为技术的奴隶。
Guilt enslaved her.内疚感压得她喘不过气来。
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Capturing or taking possession of things
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intercept
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snatch at something

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Treating people or animals badly
People who serve other people
Controlling and being in charge

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enslavement

enslave | American Dictionary


enslave
verb[ T ]
us/ɪnˈsleɪv/
to control someone by keeping the person in a bad or difficult situation where the person is not free, or to make a slave (= person legally owned) of someone

Examples of enslave


enslave
You are not leaving enslaved, but as brothers and disciples.
They cannot fulfil their mistress's command till they have completely enslaved the consciousness.
Family papers are preserved in more cases than hitherto believed, and those of enslaver families may contain more references to the enslaved.
In the second, while pleasure is abundant, freedom is absent as our pleasure is generated by a machine that enslaves our wills.
Without an answer to the questions about coalitions and value of labour, we cannot make an assessment of whether the talented, or anyone else for that matter, would be enslaved.
To argue that a particular kind of worker under no circumstances has a right to strike is to make an argument for enslaving such a worker.
In the present article we do not claim that these informational macroscopic variables are order parameters per se, exhibiting properties such as circular causality, enslaving, or time-scale conventions.
Their mountains shall not be enslaved.
We have witnessed the entire resources of a once wealthy state enslaved.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
How will the mind of anyone be enslaved by four channels?
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If the political values of society some years ago had been entrenched, and we could not change them, we should be enslaved by the dead.
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Ultimately, they are enslaved by debt and violence, and the threat of violence.
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They are a constant source of criminality, oppressing and enslaving people, endangering the life and limb even of children.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
There are three respects, and only three, in regard to which it is said we are enslaving the doctor.
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To some extent we have been enslaved by worshipping gross national product and economic growth through the technological revolution as an end in itself.
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Hansard archive

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