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词汇 enslaving
释义 enslaving
present participle ofenslave
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。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Capturing or taking possession of things
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apprehend
apprehension
arrogate
at bayidiom
cage
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clutch
collar
get/lay/put your hands on someoneidiom
grab
grabber
grasp at something
recover
repossess
seize
sequester
sequestration
snag
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Treating people or animals badly
People who serve other people
Controlling and being in charge

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Examples of enslaving


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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


The power of enslaving people is purely local, and depends on local laws of certain places.
It is not clear that enslaving a person and releasing him right before reproduction violates a duty to his progeny.
The framework is basically geographical by enslaving nation.
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.
But they are enslaving the people, because monopoly always leads to enslavement.
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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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Under the term "mandated territory," you find a new means for enslaving other people and interfering in other people's countries and dominions.
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It is all very well for you to get into a frenzy about enslaving and robbing other nations, but you are forgetting your own destiny.
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They are something of the order of television, or it might almost be atomic energy, capable either of enriching or of enslaving human society.
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Twenty-five years ago we wished to reform ourselves and to do what we could to relieve our nation from the curse of this enslaving habit.
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Instead of being a benefit to the worker it is merely a machine for enslaving labour, the conditions of which at the present time are infinitely worse.
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Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man.
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He took pleasure from enslaving the bodies of the former kings as his dark knights.
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