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单词 slaver
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slaver1

noun ˈsleɪvəˈsleɪvər
historical
  • 1A person who dealt in or owned slaves.

    〈主史〉奴隶贩子

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In reality the population of the islands were ethnically mixed, because while Zanzibar was a centre of the slave trade Arab slavers had intermarried with the indigenous African population.
    • When slavers came to harvest humans for sale, these African societies were utterly defenseless.
    • The fact that the Boers were slavers, and utterly despised the blacks, was of little consequence to Britain's critics.
    • I already told you, I don't deal with slavers.
    • The sword wielding African slavers that the Europeans dealt with usually kept the women and children to add to their own tribe numbers.
    • This area of tropical rain forest in north-western Borneo, lying along the mangrove coast of the South China Sea, was infested with pirates, slavers and head-hunters.
    • In 1871 Scottish missionary David Livingstone saw hundreds of African women shot while trying to escape slavers.
    • The slaver began loudly complaining of her conduct.
    • The slavers were bad enough without being angered by other unlicensed traders stealing their market.
    • The first Europeans to visit the area were Portuguese navigators and British slavers.
    • These unpopulated regions had been a haven for pirates, slavers, and other scoundrels for centuries.
    • It doesn't matter who were the slaves and who were the slavers.
    • They could, however, act as bolt holes when gangs of slavers raided, a growing menace from the ninth century on.
    • The Vikings are the archetypal slavers in European history, enslaving victims in eastern Europe and the Mediterranean area, and selling them in markets far away.
    • Introduced primarily by the Portuguese, corn became a major crop in the African slave shipping areas and their hinterlands to meet the provisioning needs of the slavers.
    • I smile at him, cocking my head to one side, listening to the bickering of the worthless slavers.
    • The descendants of Africans captured by slavers and taken to servitude in America are on average better off than the descendants of their neighbours who evaded capture.
    • Britain had outlawed the slave trade in 1808, and her colonies were not allowed to render assistance to slavers.
    • There are laws that could send the slavers to jail for years but they are never used.
    • All the western slavers had to do was turn up in port and have the slaves brought to them.
    • The winner took away with him as many of the losing tribe as he could manage, and those he could not use were sold to slavers.
    • If you get blood on my bed, I will make you wish you were still with the slavers.
    • Slave trading had been theoretically a capital offence in America since 1820, but no slaver had ever been condemned to death.
    • Inter-ethnic relations in Africa will for long continue to be affected by perceptions as to who collaborated with the slavers and who suffered most.
    1. 1.1 A ship used for transporting slaves.
      奴隶贩运船
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Some slavers which were altered in this way were sent for re-assay, and a Victorian hallmark will be found on the border and any feet which may have been added.
      • The slave trade within Africa involved very high costs for guarding slaves, transporting them, and feeding them until the slavers from Europe turned up at the port.
      • The Trouvadore was a Spanish slaver wrecked near Middle Caicos in 1841.
      • Political, economic, social, religious, and personal matters at each spot the slaver touched, as well as on the vessel itself, affected the nature of the experience for all concerned.
      • Jessie then found himself aboard The Moonlight, the slaver with its towering sails and masts, cabins and storage space under the deck.
      • Considering Cornado's brand of hospitality, any ship in his service was probable no better than a slaver.

Rhymes

cadaver

slaver2

noun ˈslavəˈslævər
mass noun
  • 1Saliva running from the mouth.

    口水,涎液

    slaver ran down from a corner of his mouth
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Then he lied motionlessly with slaver flowing out of his mouth.
    • Scholarly and distinguished-looking, he made a most unexpected slaver.
    • It was believed that serpents, coiling together in a wriggling, writhing mass, generated these glass or paste beads from their slaver and shot them into the air from their hissing jaws.
    • A drip of his slaver splashed onto my chin and ran down my neck.
  • 2archaic Excessive or obsequious flattery.

    〈古,喻〉恭维,奉承

verb ˈslavəˈsleɪvəˈslævər
[no object]
  • 1Let saliva run from the mouth.

    口水,涎液

    the Labrador was slavering at the mouth

    这只拉布拉多猎狗正在淌口水。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Not one of them was staring at the tutor slavering and leaving long fingernail scratches down his desk.
    • And in the foreground, a gorilla and a gorilla-sized weta roar and slaver.
    • He started chewing the police car's tires, biting the bumper and generally snarling and slavering, trying to get at the cops, who chose to stay put with the windows rolled up.
    • It was ordered into a frontal attack as part of a botched tank offensive. As dawn broke, survivors staggered back, ‘haggard, bloodshot-eyed, slavering and rolling their bare-teethed heads’.
    • Within a manner of half seconds, the wall exploded, and out from among the debris leapt a huge creature with slavering tusked jaws and mean yellow eyes.
    • They may be slavering for beer, but are they prepared to pay a fiver a pint?
    • I hadn't been around ice cream trucks in a long time and I had forgotten the way they stopped whenever enough slavering children gathered round to make the wasteful idling of the engine economical.
    • It hadn't been in the script that I would have a man's life in my hands or, worse, that he would be slavering into my fingers.
    Synonyms
    drool, slobber, dribble, salivate
    Scottish &amp Irish slabber
    archaic drivel
    1. 1.1 Show excessive admiration or desire.
      垂涎
      suburbanites slavering over drop-dead models

      垂涎于非常引人注目的模特们的郊区居民。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Hell, they slaver over the prospect of a kid falling down a well, or a local dog getting braces.
      • So, how does it feel to have the men of New York slavering at your feet?
      • You see, she had used up more litres of saliva than a cow per day, slavering at Brad.
      • While there are those who slaver to bathe in the esteem of others, there are many who do not - especially those who have been taught that all praise and glory and blessing and honor belong to the Lamb of God alone.
      • I don't even know why I'm bothering to post this; it's hardly a secret to anyone that media organizations are slavering over the prospect of war.

Origin

Middle English: probably from Low German; compare with slobber.

slaver1

nounˈslāvərˈsleɪvər
historical
  • 1A person dealing in or owning slaves.

    〈主史〉奴隶贩子

    Example sentencesExamples
    • All the western slavers had to do was turn up in port and have the slaves brought to them.
    • The sword wielding African slavers that the Europeans dealt with usually kept the women and children to add to their own tribe numbers.
    • The slaver began loudly complaining of her conduct.
    • Inter-ethnic relations in Africa will for long continue to be affected by perceptions as to who collaborated with the slavers and who suffered most.
    • The descendants of Africans captured by slavers and taken to servitude in America are on average better off than the descendants of their neighbours who evaded capture.
    • I smile at him, cocking my head to one side, listening to the bickering of the worthless slavers.
    • I already told you, I don't deal with slavers.
    • These unpopulated regions had been a haven for pirates, slavers, and other scoundrels for centuries.
    • This area of tropical rain forest in north-western Borneo, lying along the mangrove coast of the South China Sea, was infested with pirates, slavers and head-hunters.
    • When slavers came to harvest humans for sale, these African societies were utterly defenseless.
    • Introduced primarily by the Portuguese, corn became a major crop in the African slave shipping areas and their hinterlands to meet the provisioning needs of the slavers.
    • The fact that the Boers were slavers, and utterly despised the blacks, was of little consequence to Britain's critics.
    • In 1871 Scottish missionary David Livingstone saw hundreds of African women shot while trying to escape slavers.
    • If you get blood on my bed, I will make you wish you were still with the slavers.
    • The first Europeans to visit the area were Portuguese navigators and British slavers.
    • The slavers were bad enough without being angered by other unlicensed traders stealing their market.
    • It doesn't matter who were the slaves and who were the slavers.
    • The Vikings are the archetypal slavers in European history, enslaving victims in eastern Europe and the Mediterranean area, and selling them in markets far away.
    • There are laws that could send the slavers to jail for years but they are never used.
    • Slave trading had been theoretically a capital offence in America since 1820, but no slaver had ever been condemned to death.
    • The winner took away with him as many of the losing tribe as he could manage, and those he could not use were sold to slavers.
    • They could, however, act as bolt holes when gangs of slavers raided, a growing menace from the ninth century on.
    • In reality the population of the islands were ethnically mixed, because while Zanzibar was a centre of the slave trade Arab slavers had intermarried with the indigenous African population.
    • Britain had outlawed the slave trade in 1808, and her colonies were not allowed to render assistance to slavers.
    1. 1.1 A ship used for transporting slaves.
      奴隶贩运船
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The Trouvadore was a Spanish slaver wrecked near Middle Caicos in 1841.
      • Considering Cornado's brand of hospitality, any ship in his service was probable no better than a slaver.
      • The slave trade within Africa involved very high costs for guarding slaves, transporting them, and feeding them until the slavers from Europe turned up at the port.
      • Jessie then found himself aboard The Moonlight, the slaver with its towering sails and masts, cabins and storage space under the deck.
      • Some slavers which were altered in this way were sent for re-assay, and a Victorian hallmark will be found on the border and any feet which may have been added.
      • Political, economic, social, religious, and personal matters at each spot the slaver touched, as well as on the vessel itself, affected the nature of the experience for all concerned.

slaver2

nounˈslavərˈslævər
  • 1Saliva running from the mouth.

    口水,涎液

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Then he lied motionlessly with slaver flowing out of his mouth.
    • A drip of his slaver splashed onto my chin and ran down my neck.
    • Scholarly and distinguished-looking, he made a most unexpected slaver.
    • It was believed that serpents, coiling together in a wriggling, writhing mass, generated these glass or paste beads from their slaver and shot them into the air from their hissing jaws.
  • 2archaic Excessive or obsequious flattery.

    〈古,喻〉恭维,奉承

verbˈslavərˈslævər
[no object]
  • 1Let saliva run from the mouth.

    口水,涎液

    the Labrador was slavering at the mouth

    这只拉布拉多猎狗正在淌口水。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He started chewing the police car's tires, biting the bumper and generally snarling and slavering, trying to get at the cops, who chose to stay put with the windows rolled up.
    • And in the foreground, a gorilla and a gorilla-sized weta roar and slaver.
    • Not one of them was staring at the tutor slavering and leaving long fingernail scratches down his desk.
    • I hadn't been around ice cream trucks in a long time and I had forgotten the way they stopped whenever enough slavering children gathered round to make the wasteful idling of the engine economical.
    • Within a manner of half seconds, the wall exploded, and out from among the debris leapt a huge creature with slavering tusked jaws and mean yellow eyes.
    • They may be slavering for beer, but are they prepared to pay a fiver a pint?
    • It was ordered into a frontal attack as part of a botched tank offensive. As dawn broke, survivors staggered back, ‘haggard, bloodshot-eyed, slavering and rolling their bare-teethed heads’.
    • It hadn't been in the script that I would have a man's life in my hands or, worse, that he would be slavering into my fingers.
    Synonyms
    drool, slobber, dribble, salivate
    1. 1.1 Show excessive desire.
      垂涎
      suburbanites slavering over drop-dead models

      垂涎于非常引人注目的模特们的郊区居民。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • You see, she had used up more litres of saliva than a cow per day, slavering at Brad.
      • Hell, they slaver over the prospect of a kid falling down a well, or a local dog getting braces.
      • I don't even know why I'm bothering to post this; it's hardly a secret to anyone that media organizations are slavering over the prospect of war.
      • While there are those who slaver to bathe in the esteem of others, there are many who do not - especially those who have been taught that all praise and glory and blessing and honor belong to the Lamb of God alone.
      • So, how does it feel to have the men of New York slavering at your feet?

Origin

Middle English: probably from Low German; compare with slobber.

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