slaving
present participle ofslave
| 单词 | slaving |
| 释义 | slaving present participle ofslave slave verb[Iusually+ adv/prep] informaluk/sleɪv/us/sleɪv/toworkvery hard at something: We slavedawayallweekatthereport. humorousI've been slavingover ahotstove(=cooking)allmorning. See also enslave Work, working and the workplace
Examplesofslavingslaving In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The mid-century court could also, however, take exception to the last-port rule in order to benefit mariners, especially those involved inslavingvoyages. From theCambridge English Corpus It demonstrates that some decentralized groups located on the 'slavingfrontiers ' of states managed not only to survive but also to thrive. From theCambridge English Corpus By the end of the eighteenth century, at least, there was sufficient local capital to fundslavingactivities, in part at least. From theCambridge English Corpus The southerners were grateful to see an end to the northernslavingpredations of their land. From theCambridge English Corpus The greatest years of ship loss beforeslavingwere 1794 (52 voyages), 1799 (29 voyages) and 1805 (19 voyages). From theCambridge English Corpus These agents cracked the resistance of decentralized societies and found collaborators for theirslavingactivities. From theCambridge English Corpus Haken formulated theslavingmode principle (regarding the behavior of such systems), which is mathematically equivalent to the center manifold theorem. From theCambridge English Corpus Key groups in every society may have seenslavingas a way to resolve their internal problems. From theCambridge English Corpus Because the center manifold theorem (or theslavingmode principle) does not apply to the case of chaotic motion, the macrovariables describing chaotic motion cannot be used as order parameters. From theCambridge English Corpus They want him to be thereslavingawry for twenty years before he is to be eligible for this bounty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it worth our whileslavingall our days and coming to the end of our tether with nothing but the old-age pension? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The employees, instead of enjoying themselves like other people, may beslavingin the kitchen or attending to the wants of visitors. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 With a vast increase in travel, there may be an expansion of whiteslavingand of the involvement of young people in drug running. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Coal was mainly hand got, pick and shovelslavingat the coalface. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The report fails to make a clear commitment to small and medium-sized farmers, many of whom find themselvesslavingaway for a pittance. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English 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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