serf

• n. 农奴；奴隶；被压迫者

来自 serve 的名词形式，比较 proof,prove.用于指农奴。

1. (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord

serf (n.)

late 15c., "servant, serving-man, slave," from Old French serf "vassal, servant, slave" (12c.), from Latin servum (nominative servus) "slave" (see serve). Fallen from use in original sense by 18c. Meaning "lowest class of cultivators of the soil in continental European countries" is from 1610s. Use by modern writers with reference to medieval Europeans first recorded 1761 (contemporary Anglo-Latin records used nativus, villanus, or servus).

The serf an assured existence, the proletarian has not.

农奴生活有保障, 无产者生活无保障.

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This decentralized economic system relied on the legal immobility of the serf.

这种分散的经济制度依赖于农奴在法律上的固定性.

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The serf was trod to death.

这个农奴被蹂躏致死.

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'sheath thy sword, " the surly sheriff said, " or surely shall a churlish serf soon shatter thee. "

“ 把你的剑装回剑鞘吧, ” 无礼的郡治安官说, “ 否则很快很快就会有一个粗野的农奴将你碎尸万段. ”

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The serf owners safeguarded the feudal serfdom with savage punishments.

农奴主以野蛮、残酷的刑罚维护封建农奴制度.

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Through it all , an unwieldy caste system governed lord and serf alike.

一个同时主宰统治者与被统治者的庞大迟滞的阶层体系,贯串整个时代.

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In the Middle Ages, a lord and a serf had very different places in life.

中世纪, 农奴主和农奴在生活中是两个截然不同的阶级.

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Czar, Alexander II, annulled serf system and its related land possession system in 1861.

1861年沙皇亚历山大二世废除了农奴制及其土地制度.

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Serf owners regarded their serfs as animals that could talk.

农奴主把农奴当做会说话的牲口.

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The serf pant along behind his master's horse.

那个奴隶喘着气跟在主人的马后.

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The state of one who is bound as a slave or serf.

奴役一个人被迫做奴隶或农奴的状态.

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They laid the blame on the serf and beat him brutally.

他们赖到这个农奴身上,把他毒打了一顿.

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The serf was beaten up by her owner and passed out for two hours.

这位农奴挨农奴主毒打,昏迷了两个小时.

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This movement overthrew the serf system and freed a million serfs and slaves.

这一运动推翻了农奴制,并且解放了百万农奴和奴隶.

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To celebrate, officials in Tibet have designated Saturday March 28 th as Serf Liberation Day.

为了表示庆祝, 西藏的官员将3月28日设定为解放日.

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Last week, we have a debate on whether middlel school students should serf the internet.

1上周我们举行了一次关于中学生是否应该上网的辩论.

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