bondage

• n. 奴役，束缚；奴役身份

来自PIE *bheue, 存在，生长，居住，词源同be，原指农夫，佃农，同husband. 后词义受bond影响。

1. the state of being under the control of another person

2. sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners

bondage (n.)

c. 1300, "condition of a serf or slave," from Anglo-Latin bondagium, from Middle English bond "a serf, tenant farmer," from Old English bonda "householder," from Old Norse boandi "free-born farmer," noun use of present participle of boa "dwell, prepare, inhabit," from PIE *bhow-, from root *bheue- "to be, exist, dwell" (see be). Meaning in English changed by influence of bond. The sexual sado-masochism sense is recorded by 1966.

(figurative)women's liberation from the bondage of domestic life

女性从家庭生活束缚中的解脱

牛津词典

Masters sometimes allowed their slaves to buy their way out of bondage.

奴隶主们有时允许奴隶为自己赎身。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

All people, she said, lived their lives in bondage to hunger, pain and lust.

她说，所有人的生活都受缚于饥饿、苦痛和欲望。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He is in bondage to passion.

他成为情欲的奴隶.

辞典例句

The Under the Bed Restraint System turns your bed into a bondage playground.

根据床克制系统把您的床变成奴役操场.

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Sex will enhance the bondage between a couple, but it is not the most important element.

性可以加强夫妻之间的联合, 但它并非是最重要的因素.

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All else is only a bondage.

全部别的就只是束缚.

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Yet Herod chose this time to arrest Peter, to put him imprison, in bondage.

但是,希律王却选择在这个时候逮捕彼得, 把他关进了监狱,使他成为阶下囚.

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Italy's geographical advantage through it, the first break the bondage to medieval foreign exchange.

意大利借着它的地理优势, 首先冲破中世纪的束缚开始进行对外交流.

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With a quick yank, I pulled it free from its bondage.

迅速一拉, 将它从捆绑中拉了出来.

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Right understanding of oneself is necessary for freedom from the bondage of illusion.

正确认识自己是从虚妄的枷锁中解脱所必需.

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And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

15并要释放那些一生因怕死而为奴仆的人.

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He sought release from his bondage to satan.

他试图从撒旦的束缚中解脱出来.

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

对寂寞的恐惧胜过对束缚的恐惧, 因此我们就结婚了.

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They represent the heavy bondage of her trapped soul, from which there is no escape.

它代表了不可摆脱的命运枷锁永远压在了她可怜的灵魂上.

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She had been long enough in bondage to other people's pleasure.

她充当别人寻欢作乐的工具已多年了.

辞典例句

Christ frees us from the bondage of sins power.

耶稣基督把我们从罪恶的捆绑中释放出来.

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If your god is almighty, why does he leave you in bondage?

如果是全能的神袖为何让你们活在枷锁中?

电影对白

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

从泥土的束缚中释放出来,树木并没有获得自由.

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Misunderstanding oneself and the world leads to false ideas and desires, which again lead to bondage.

对自已及世界的误解导致虚假的观念和欲望, 继而引起束缚.

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This book gives tools to break the bondage of destructive eating habits.

这本书让他们摆脱了暴饮暴食上瘾的习惯.

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They aim to deliver the people who are in bondage to superstitious belief.

他们的目的在于解脱那些受迷信束缚的人.

《简明英汉词典》

Paul says: " I buffet my body and bring it into bondage. "

保罗说: “ 我攻克己身,叫身服我. ”

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We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

我们受法律约束,为的是可以自由.

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The Party claimed, of course, to have liberated the proles from bondage.

当然啦, 按党的说法, 它在把无产者从枷锁当中解放出来.

英汉文学

From bondage , to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to complacency.

从被奴役到只有, 从自由到富裕, 从富足到满足.

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He was in bondage to fear.

他处于恐惧状态.

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He is in bondage to his ambition.

他被他的野心所支配.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

Patented radio frequency technology breaks the bondage of the cable between the board and the computer.

将无线射频技术运用于绘画板中,使绘画板与电脑之间摆脱了线缆的牵绊,随时随地自由创意.

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