slave

• n. 奴隶；从动装置
• vi. 苦干；拼命工作
• n. (Slave)人名；(塞、罗)斯拉韦

来自拉丁语 Sclavus,奴隶，原义为斯拉夫人。因在中世纪时斯拉夫人大量沦为奴隶而引申该 词义。

1. a person who is owned by someone

2. someone who works as hard as a slave

3. someone entirely dominated by some influence or person;

"a slave to fashion"

"a slave to cocaine"

"his mother was his abject slave"

slave

slave: [13] The word slave commemorates the fate of the Slavic people in the past, reduced by conquest to a state of slavery. For ultimately slave and Slav are one and the same. The earliest record we have of the ethnic name is as Slavic Sloveninu, a word of unknown origin borrowed by Byzantine Greek as Sklábos and passed on to medieval Latin as Sclavus. It was this that was turned into a generic term sclavus ‘slave’, which passed into English via Old French esclave.

slave (n.)

late 13c., "person who is the chattel or property of another," from Old French esclave (13c.), from Medieval Latin Sclavus "slave" (source also of Italian schiavo, French esclave, Spanish esclavo), originally "Slav" (see Slav); so used in this secondary sense because of the many Slavs sold into slavery by conquering peoples.

This sense development arose in the consequence of the wars waged by Otto the Great and his successors against the Slavs, a great number of whom they took captive and sold into slavery. [Klein]

Meaning "one who has lost the power of resistance to some habit or vice" is from 1550s. Applied to devices from 1904, especially those which are controlled by others (compare slave jib in sailing, similarly of locomotives, flash bulbs, amplifiers). Slave-driver is attested from 1807; extended sense of "cruel or exacting task-master" is by 1854. Slate state in U.S. history is from 1812. Slave-trade is attested from 1734.

Old English Wealh "Briton" also began to be used in the sense of "serf, slave" c.850; and Sanskrit dasa-, which can mean "slave," apparently is connected to dasyu- "pre-Aryan inhabitant of India." Grose's dictionary (1785) has under Negroe "A black-a-moor; figuratively used for a slave," without regard to race. More common Old English words for slave were þeow (related to þeowian "to serve") and þræl (see thrall). The Slavic words for "slave" (Russian rab, Serbo-Croatian rob, Old Church Slavonic rabu) are from Old Slavic *orbu, from the PIE root *orbh- (also source of orphan), the ground sense of which seems to be "thing that changes allegiance" (in the case of the slave, from himself to his master). The Slavic word is also the source of robot.

slave (v.)

1550s, "to enslave," from slave (n.). The meaning "work like a slave" is first recorded 1719. Related: Slaved; slaving.

Slave

Indian tribe of northwestern Canada, 1789, from slave (n.), translating Cree (Algonquian) awahkan "captive, slave."

According to data gathered by Harvard Law School professor Lani Guinier, the most selective schools are more likely to choose blacks who have at least one immigrant parent from Africa or the Caribbean than black students who are descendants of American slaves.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

Phillis Wheatley was a young African-American slave who belonged to landowner John Wheatley in Colonial America.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

Wheatley may have been the first, but she was not the only slave to write books during the growing days of the Republic

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She was the first educated slave of John Whitley's.

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She was the first African-American slave to publish a book

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Early slaves were generally denied education, but Wheatley was allowed by her owner to study poetry, Latin and the Bible.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

In very literary styles, the newly resurfaced manuscripts offered a rich stock of African-American culture,recreating among other things the early days of slavery and the importance of religion to the slaves

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Religious scripts popular among slaves in America.

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She treated her daughter like a slave.

她对待女儿像对待奴隶一样。

牛津词典

We are slaves of the motor car.

我们离不了汽车。

牛津词典

Sue's a slave to fashion.

休是个拼命赶时髦的人。

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I've been slaving away all day trying to get this work finished.

我整天苦干，想把这项工作赶完。

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I haven't got time to spend hours slaving over a hot stove (= doing a lot of cooking) .

我没时间老围着灶台转。

牛津词典

The state of Liberia was formed a century and a half ago by freed slaves from the United States.

150年前，从美国获得了自由归来的奴隶建立了利比里亚。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Movie stars used to be slaves to the studio system.

电影明星过去完全受制于大制片厂制度。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

When you're busy all day the last thing you want to do is spend hours slaving over a hot stove.

辛苦了一整天之后，最不愿意做的事情就是在热烘烘的炉子前再忙活上好几个钟头。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

This will silence the slaveholder, when he says where is your love for the slave?

奴隶们想对我们说:你们对奴隶的爱到哪儿去了?

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John Brown and his associates were tried for conspiring to overthrow the slave states.

约翰·布朗和他的合伙者们由于密谋推翻实行奴隶制度的美国各州而被审讯.

《用法词典》

The word & quot ; Cracker & quot ; was coined in the south by white slave owners.

“饼干佬 ” 是南方的白人奴隶主发明的.

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If you can never be mine, still let me be your proud and happy slave.

如果你不能成为我妻, 那就让我做你自豪而幸福的奴隶.

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Cape Coast Castle was the grandest of the slave emporiums, at the centre of the trade.

海岸角的奴隶城堡当时最大的奴隶交易中心, 这里算得上是奴隶贸易的中心.

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The process whereby a master station requests slave station to indicate its identity or its status.

主站要求从站表明其标识或状态的过程.

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Good deeds of the wicked one, a slave labor, but compassionate.

一个行善的恶人, 一名苦役犯, 却有同情心.

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A slave thou art : free speech is not for thee.

你是一个奴隶: 自由的言谈不是适于人你的.

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Mostly this is due to having some slave nation lineages in your tapestry of ancestry.

这主要是由于在你的祖先织锦中有一些奴隶族血统而造成的.

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It all but a slave society.

这完全就是一个奴隶社会.

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The slave system in this country was abolished in the eighteenth century.

这个国家的奴隶制是在十八世纪被废除的.

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The slave was strapped to death.

这个奴隶被鞭打死.

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Smith says he smokes fifty cigarettes a day; he's a slave to smoking.

史密斯说他一天抽50支香烟, 他真是一个烟鬼.

《简明英汉词典》

Slaves were mercilessly ground down by slave holders.

奴隶受奴隶主的残酷压迫.

《简明英汉词典》

Most of all, he is highly respected because he helped to abolish slave trade in Africa.

更重要的是, 他因促成废除非洲的奴隶买卖而备受尊敬.

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Typing at that salary is slave labour.

干薪金那么低的打字工作等于做苦工.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

Don't be a slave to custom.

不要做风俗习惯的奴隶.

《用法词典》

She treated her daughter like a slave.

她对待女儿像对待奴隶一样。

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

Huge palaces were built by slave labour.

宏伟的宫殿是奴隶建成的。

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

The children were used as slave labour in gold mines in the jungle.

在丛林地带，儿童被用作开采金矿的苦役。

柯林斯例句

Liverpool grew fat on the basis of the slave trade.

利物浦是靠奴隶贸易肥起来的。

柯林斯例句

The report alleges that thousands of people have been forced into slave labour by the army.

该报告宣称，成千上万的人被军队逼迫做苦役。

柯林斯例句