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单词 enslave
释义
enslave
verb[Toften passive]
uk
/ɪnˈsleɪv/us
/ɪnˈsleɪv/
toforcesomeone toremainin abadsituation:
使遭受；使无法摆脱
Women in thisregionwere enslaved bypoverty.这一地区的妇女备受贫困蹂躏。
to make aslaveof someone:
奴役；使成为奴隶
The earlysettlersenslaved orkilledmuch of thenativepopulation.早期的殖民者奴役或杀害了很多原住民。
literary
tocontrolsomeone'sactions,thoughts,emotions, orlifecompletely:
控制；制服；制约
We areincreasinglyenslaved bytechnology.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
  • -grabbing
  • apprehend
  • apprehension
  • arrogate
  • at bayidiom
  • cage
  • capture
  • catch
  • clutch
  • collar
  • corner
  • get/lay/putyourhands onsomeoneidiom
  • grab
  • grabber
  • grasp atsomething
  • repo man
  • seize
  • sequester
  • sequestration
  • snag
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Treating people or animals badly
People who serve other people
Controlling and being in charge

Related word

enslavement
(Definition ofenslavefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

enslave| American Dictionary

enslave
verb[T]
us
/ɪnˈsleɪv/
tocontrolsomeone bykeepingthepersonin abadordifficultsituationwhere thepersonis notfree, or to make aslave(=personlegallyowned)of someone
(Definition ofenslavefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofenslave

enslave
You are not leaving enslaved, but as brothers and disciples.
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They cannot fulfil their mistress's command till they have completely enslaved the consciousness.
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Family papers are preserved in more cases than hitherto believed, and those of enslaver families may contain more references to the enslaved.
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In the second, while pleasure is abundant, freedom is absent as our pleasure is generated by a machine that enslaves our wills.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Their mountains shall not be enslaved.
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We have witnessed the entire resources of a once wealthy state enslaved.
FromEuroparl 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.
FromEuroparl 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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Hansard archive
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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
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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