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单词 servitude
释义
servitude
noun[U]
formal
uk
/ˈsɜː.vɪ.tʃuːd/us
/ˈsɝː.və.tuːd/
thestateof being under thecontrolof someoneelseand of having nofreedom:
苦役；奴役；劳役
In the past, themajorityof women wereconsignedto alifetimeof servitude andpoverty.过去，大多数的女性一生含辛茹苦，一贫如洗。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Lack of freedom to act
  • be in bondage tosomethingidiom
  • be locked insomething
  • bondage
  • bound
  • boxed in
  • disempowered
  • disempowering
  • disenfranchisement
  • heel
  • lock
  • non-voluntary
  • paralytic
  • qualified
  • regimented
  • shackle
  • someone'shands are tiedidiom
  • tethered
  • thumb
  • tie
  • undersomeone'sthumbidiom
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(Definition ofservitudefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

servitude| American Dictionary

servitude
noun[U]
us
/ˈsɜr·vˌtud/
thestateof being under thecontrolof someoneelseand of having nofreedom; theconditionof aslave
(Definition ofservitudefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofservitude

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But a warning to those who preferservitude, or become partisans of the enemy, for we will remove your heads.
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The order would appear to have bordered on impressment and amounted to bondedservitudefor the duration of the war if necessary.
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He considered reverence for age an empty convention that confined the human mind in itsservitude.
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Certainly, in some sense, more than seventy years of penalservitudehave been handed out.
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By its very nature it is dedicated to destroying what is essential to jahiliyya: theservitudeof human to - human.
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Most were enemies of the traditional patriarchal order and all it stood for - old-style family life, police rule, humanservitude.
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Their "mutualservitude" can easily slip into reciprocal idolatry, however.
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That would beservitudefor the minority and tyranny for the majority, rather than liberty for all.
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Some detainees eagerly agreed to perform onerous physical tasks, so better to illuminate the abjectservitudein which they lived.
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It is incumbent on the judicial authorities to obtain, without the fullest proof of free will, from countenancing theservitudeof any individual entitled to freedom.
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Rustam's account gives valuable insight into the personal experience of forcedservitude, complementing, and at times contradicting commonly held assumptions.
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Clearly, if a husband was deaf to persuasion, resolved to push his prerogatives to the utmost, then marriage could mean miserableservitudefor his unlucky wife.
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During, but especially after the gold rushes, disappointed diggers wanted their own land rather than returning to wageservitudein the burgeoning cities or as rural labourers.
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