Definition of slavery in English:

slavery

noun ˈsleɪv(ə)riˈsleɪv(ə)ri

mass noun

1The state of being a slave.
奴隶身份，奴役
thousands had been sold into slavery
成千上万的人被卖为奴。
Example sentencesExamples
- Nothing was heard of it again and it is thought that those who survived the voyage were sold into slavery in north Africa.
- Few women suspect they will be sold into sexual slavery.
- It was at that age that he was sold into slavery by a group of Irish marauders that raided his village.
- What happened to the Scots sold into slavery in Barbados?
- Moreover, there have been UN reports of children being sold into slavery and prostitution.
- They insisted that since they had lived on free soil, their bonds of slavery were no longer valid.
- When Nicholas heard that the father was sick with grief that he might have to sell his daughters into slavery, he knew he must help.
- She might as well have been going to a Calcutta slum or sold into slavery.
- In Sweden, factors like famine and civil war have driven the Dinha tribes from their land in the South leading to many being sold into slavery.
- A police spokesman in the capital Abuja said authorities were looking into whether there were plans to sell some into slavery.
- And in China more than 15,000 women will be sold into sexual slavery each year.
- When she escaped the first time, Nataly was taken in by a Moldovan woman who then sold her back into slavery.
- You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery.
- Young women being sold into sex slavery is not unheard of in Aruba.
- Had Joseph not been kidnapped and sold into slavery, he would not have been in a position to help his family in their time of need.
- In third-world countries, unwanted babies are often abandoned or sold into slavery.
- The stronger ones would be sold into slavery or servitude.
- Set against the American Civil War, this city was the scene of another kind of slavery and subjugation.
- But fears are growing that orphaned children are being trafficked by unscrupulous criminals and sold into slavery and prostitution.
- A thriving trade in child abductions is rife throughout the country which sees many young children sold into slavery or the sex trade.
Synonyms
bondage, enslavement, servitude, subjugation, thraldom, thrall, serfdom, vassalage, enthralment, yoke
1. 1.1 The practice or system of owning slaves.
  奴隶制；蓄奴
  he was resolved to impose a number of reforms, including the abolition of slavery
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is not hard to believe the very worst of any country where a system like slavery has existed for centuries.
  He laughs and says he does not expect his slaves to be honest, as the system of slavery forces them to resort to cheating and dishonesty just to get by.
  Elsewhere in Africa, there are still societies that practice slavery.
  This is a nation that practiced slavery, genocide of the native peoples, Jim Crow apartheid and war mongering.
  This year the UN will organize exhibitions, concerts and studies meant to deepen knowledge about the banned practice of slavery.
  I have also argued that these consequences of the wide acceptance of the race idea helped to perpetuate and to rationalize the practice of slavery.
  In his thesis, he described in detail the places and tribal groups where slavery is still practiced.
  It is quite understandable that a religion practiced under slavery would emphasize evil spirits.
  It also says that the ‘practice of slavery constitutes a crime against humanity.’
  Of all the cruel practices of slavery, Douglass considers the fate of his grandmother most unacceptable.
  It comes as a surprise to missionaries arriving fresh from the west of Ireland to hear that slavery has been practiced in Brazil right up to the present time.
  And the biggest difference between the two social systems was slavery.
  Mauritania is one of the last places on earth where slavery is widely practiced.
  When slavery was first practiced in the Americas during the early colonial period, it was purely for economic use.
  Lincoln sold a war against slavery as a war for the Union.
  But should current day white Americans pay reparations to descendants of blacks for slavery that was practiced more than a century ago?
  Here is one man's story about the practice of slavery in the country.
  Ruffin reasoned that hirers and owners should hold the same power, else the entire system of slavery would crumble.
  The English developed a sugar plantation system that thrived until the abolition of slavery, when the system collapsed.
  Despite global condemnation, the international community continues to be confronted with practices analogous to slavery.
  Synonyms
  bondage, enslavement, servitude, subjugation, thraldom, thrall, serfdom, vassalage, enthralment, yoke
2. 1.2 A condition of having to work very hard without proper remuneration or appreciation.
  female domestic slavery
  女性家庭奴役。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Thousands of North Korean men, women and children are forced to work and often perish under conditions of slavery.
  In turn, these companies have taken advantage of dire drought conditions in parts of Brazil to entice workers into slavery.
  More trade will not break the chains of debt slavery.
  Women have been abducted by armed men, detained for a time in conditions of sexual slavery, raped and made to perform domestic chores.
  Thirty two years later, the life of the Bahamian is still sadly crippled by the manacles of marginalisation and the chains of economic slavery.
  Then I shrug and feel the chains of urban slavery slip from my shoulders in my sweat.
  The nation thus becomes the new justification for domestic slavery.
  She was too intelligent and too well educated for domestic slavery.
  They would be back in L.A. a whole month before Uni resumed, but, as Jessi had said, it would be good to get settled prior to the hard slavery of the final year.
  Eastern Europe's subordination is a feminized or festishized position: domestic slavery in the world order.
  Hardly any women worked but most spent 32 hours a week on unpaid domestic slavery.
  Experts say police corruption - in Italy and in the native countries of these women - makes it harder to battle sex slavery.
  Also, with the competitive slavery of the profit system gone, we could spend more on researching environmentally safe methods to boost production.
  She is working hard towards cutting out any need for slavery in her life and asserts her right to work part-time without it being seen as a sign of marginalisation.
  Synonyms
  drudgery, toil, (hard) slog, hard labour, grind, sweated labour
  Australian/New Zealand informal (hard) yakka
  archaic travail, moil
3. 1.3 Excessive dependence on or devotion to something.
  过分依赖；过分投入
  slavery to tradition
  对传统的过分依赖。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The one response that can rescue us from this slavery to our own works is the presentation of the Christian message as the only truly liberating force.
  Thank you for calling me out of my slavery to the bottle and my worship of alcohol.
  We haven't just gone for a compromise, we've given in, capitulated and sold ourselves into slavery.
  Their ever-shorter skirts and tight blouses might look rebellious, but their pack mentality guarantees their slavery to fashion.
  They look at us coquettishly, which makes their slavery to fashion all the more pathetic.
  Such arguments only show the mental slavery to which these people have succumbed.
  Paul does not explain what comprises this slavery to idols.
  And just as they were delivered from their slavery, we, too, have been delivered by Jesus from our slavery to sin.
  It is not loving for the Church to encourage us to live in slavery to this mortal flesh.
  Our symbol of freedom becomes an emblem of our slavery to an insane idea.
  The modern day slavery of the capitalist system is exposed in a satirical and playful way.
  No enslavement and no tyranny are as ruthless and as demanding as slavery to physical desires and passions.
  Augustine was in a garden in Milan, overwhelmed by his sinfulness, especially his slavery to sexual desire.
  Empower us to live in your great Spirit, standing firm against all that would imprison your people in slavery to worldly idols.
  A fear of missing the train, a slavery to time, has provided ten minutes before the train leaves.
  Feminism made it okay for me to have that abortion, an act that saved me from twenty years of slavery to something I wasn't even ready for.
  I grew up under the heavy yoke of religion and its mental slavery to fear, and the economic domination of the church in the name of God.
  He is saying that we have been set free from slavery to the reign of sin.
  Scotland, he said, was being sold into slavery, its privileges were being lost, its freedoms curtailed.
  The bonds of familial affection threaten to mutate into the bonds of slavery at a moment's notice.

Rhymes

Avery, bravery, knavery, quavery, Savery, savory, savoury, wavery

Definition of slavery in US English:

slavery

nounˈsleɪv(ə)riˈslāv(ə)rē

1The state of being a slave.
奴隶身份，奴役
thousands had been sold into slavery
成千上万的人被卖为奴。
Example sentencesExamples
- Had Joseph not been kidnapped and sold into slavery, he would not have been in a position to help his family in their time of need.
- Moreover, there have been UN reports of children being sold into slavery and prostitution.
- They insisted that since they had lived on free soil, their bonds of slavery were no longer valid.
- You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery.
- What happened to the Scots sold into slavery in Barbados?
- When she escaped the first time, Nataly was taken in by a Moldovan woman who then sold her back into slavery.
- Set against the American Civil War, this city was the scene of another kind of slavery and subjugation.
- Nothing was heard of it again and it is thought that those who survived the voyage were sold into slavery in north Africa.
- But fears are growing that orphaned children are being trafficked by unscrupulous criminals and sold into slavery and prostitution.
- When Nicholas heard that the father was sick with grief that he might have to sell his daughters into slavery, he knew he must help.
- A police spokesman in the capital Abuja said authorities were looking into whether there were plans to sell some into slavery.
- A thriving trade in child abductions is rife throughout the country which sees many young children sold into slavery or the sex trade.
- She might as well have been going to a Calcutta slum or sold into slavery.
- In Sweden, factors like famine and civil war have driven the Dinha tribes from their land in the South leading to many being sold into slavery.
- It was at that age that he was sold into slavery by a group of Irish marauders that raided his village.
- The stronger ones would be sold into slavery or servitude.
- Few women suspect they will be sold into sexual slavery.
- In third-world countries, unwanted babies are often abandoned or sold into slavery.
- And in China more than 15,000 women will be sold into sexual slavery each year.
- Young women being sold into sex slavery is not unheard of in Aruba.
Synonyms
bondage, enslavement, servitude, subjugation, thraldom, thrall, serfdom, vassalage, enthralment, yoke
1. 1.1 The practice or system of owning slaves.
  奴隶制；蓄奴
  Example sentencesExamples
  Here is one man's story about the practice of slavery in the country.
  But should current day white Americans pay reparations to descendants of blacks for slavery that was practiced more than a century ago?
  I have also argued that these consequences of the wide acceptance of the race idea helped to perpetuate and to rationalize the practice of slavery.
  Ruffin reasoned that hirers and owners should hold the same power, else the entire system of slavery would crumble.
  Elsewhere in Africa, there are still societies that practice slavery.
  The English developed a sugar plantation system that thrived until the abolition of slavery, when the system collapsed.
  This year the UN will organize exhibitions, concerts and studies meant to deepen knowledge about the banned practice of slavery.
  Despite global condemnation, the international community continues to be confronted with practices analogous to slavery.
  Mauritania is one of the last places on earth where slavery is widely practiced.
  Of all the cruel practices of slavery, Douglass considers the fate of his grandmother most unacceptable.
  It also says that the ‘practice of slavery constitutes a crime against humanity.’
  This is a nation that practiced slavery, genocide of the native peoples, Jim Crow apartheid and war mongering.
  Lincoln sold a war against slavery as a war for the Union.
  And the biggest difference between the two social systems was slavery.
  When slavery was first practiced in the Americas during the early colonial period, it was purely for economic use.
  It is not hard to believe the very worst of any country where a system like slavery has existed for centuries.
  In his thesis, he described in detail the places and tribal groups where slavery is still practiced.
  He laughs and says he does not expect his slaves to be honest, as the system of slavery forces them to resort to cheating and dishonesty just to get by.
  It comes as a surprise to missionaries arriving fresh from the west of Ireland to hear that slavery has been practiced in Brazil right up to the present time.
  It is quite understandable that a religion practiced under slavery would emphasize evil spirits.
  Synonyms
  bondage, enslavement, servitude, subjugation, thraldom, thrall, serfdom, vassalage, enthralment, yoke
2. 1.2 A condition compared to that of a slave in respect of exhausting labor or restricted freedom.
  奴役状况，苦役状态
  female domestic slavery
  女性家庭奴役。
  Example sentencesExamples
  They would be back in L.A. a whole month before Uni resumed, but, as Jessi had said, it would be good to get settled prior to the hard slavery of the final year.
  Also, with the competitive slavery of the profit system gone, we could spend more on researching environmentally safe methods to boost production.
  She is working hard towards cutting out any need for slavery in her life and asserts her right to work part-time without it being seen as a sign of marginalisation.
  In turn, these companies have taken advantage of dire drought conditions in parts of Brazil to entice workers into slavery.
  The nation thus becomes the new justification for domestic slavery.
  Experts say police corruption - in Italy and in the native countries of these women - makes it harder to battle sex slavery.
  Women have been abducted by armed men, detained for a time in conditions of sexual slavery, raped and made to perform domestic chores.
  Eastern Europe's subordination is a feminized or festishized position: domestic slavery in the world order.
  More trade will not break the chains of debt slavery.
  Hardly any women worked but most spent 32 hours a week on unpaid domestic slavery.
  Thousands of North Korean men, women and children are forced to work and often perish under conditions of slavery.
  She was too intelligent and too well educated for domestic slavery.
  Thirty two years later, the life of the Bahamian is still sadly crippled by the manacles of marginalisation and the chains of economic slavery.
  Then I shrug and feel the chains of urban slavery slip from my shoulders in my sweat.
  Synonyms
  drudgery, toil, slog, hard slog, hard labour, grind, sweated labour
3. 1.3 Excessive dependence on or devotion to something.
  过分依赖；过分投入
  slavery to tradition
  对传统的过分依赖。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He is saying that we have been set free from slavery to the reign of sin.
  I grew up under the heavy yoke of religion and its mental slavery to fear, and the economic domination of the church in the name of God.
  No enslavement and no tyranny are as ruthless and as demanding as slavery to physical desires and passions.
  Scotland, he said, was being sold into slavery, its privileges were being lost, its freedoms curtailed.
  Such arguments only show the mental slavery to which these people have succumbed.
  Augustine was in a garden in Milan, overwhelmed by his sinfulness, especially his slavery to sexual desire.
  It is not loving for the Church to encourage us to live in slavery to this mortal flesh.
  Our symbol of freedom becomes an emblem of our slavery to an insane idea.
  We haven't just gone for a compromise, we've given in, capitulated and sold ourselves into slavery.
  Empower us to live in your great Spirit, standing firm against all that would imprison your people in slavery to worldly idols.
  They look at us coquettishly, which makes their slavery to fashion all the more pathetic.
  And just as they were delivered from their slavery, we, too, have been delivered by Jesus from our slavery to sin.
  The modern day slavery of the capitalist system is exposed in a satirical and playful way.
  Paul does not explain what comprises this slavery to idols.
  A fear of missing the train, a slavery to time, has provided ten minutes before the train leaves.
  Feminism made it okay for me to have that abortion, an act that saved me from twenty years of slavery to something I wasn't even ready for.
  Thank you for calling me out of my slavery to the bottle and my worship of alcohol.
  The bonds of familial affection threaten to mutate into the bonds of slavery at a moment's notice.
  The one response that can rescue us from this slavery to our own works is the presentation of the Christian message as the only truly liberating force.
  Their ever-shorter skirts and tight blouses might look rebellious, but their pack mentality guarantees their slavery to fashion.

单词	slavery
释义	Definition of slavery in English: slavery noun ˈsleɪv(ə)riˈsleɪv(ə)ri mass noun 1The state of being a slave. 奴隶身份，奴役 thousands had been sold into slavery 成千上万的人被卖为奴。 Example sentencesExamples Nothing was heard of it again and it is thought that those who survived the voyage were sold into slavery in north Africa. Few women suspect they will be sold into sexual slavery. It was at that age that he was sold into slavery by a group of Irish marauders that raided his village. What happened to the Scots sold into slavery in Barbados? Moreover, there have been UN reports of children being sold into slavery and prostitution. They insisted that since they had lived on free soil, their bonds of slavery were no longer valid. When Nicholas heard that the father was sick with grief that he might have to sell his daughters into slavery, he knew he must help. She might as well have been going to a Calcutta slum or sold into slavery. In Sweden, factors like famine and civil war have driven the Dinha tribes from their land in the South leading to many being sold into slavery. A police spokesman in the capital Abuja said authorities were looking into whether there were plans to sell some into slavery. And in China more than 15,000 women will be sold into sexual slavery each year. When she escaped the first time, Nataly was taken in by a Moldovan woman who then sold her back into slavery. You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. Young women being sold into sex slavery is not unheard of in Aruba. Had Joseph not been kidnapped and sold into slavery, he would not have been in a position to help his family in their time of need. In third-world countries, unwanted babies are often abandoned or sold into slavery. The stronger ones would be sold into slavery or servitude. Set against the American Civil War, this city was the scene of another kind of slavery and subjugation. But fears are growing that orphaned children are being trafficked by unscrupulous criminals and sold into slavery and prostitution. A thriving trade in child abductions is rife throughout the country which sees many young children sold into slavery or the sex trade. Synonyms bondage, enslavement, servitude, subjugation, thraldom, thrall, serfdom, vassalage, enthralment, yoke 1.1 The practice or system of owning slaves. 奴隶制；蓄奴 he was resolved to impose a number of reforms, including the abolition of slavery Example sentencesExamples It is not hard to believe the very worst of any country where a system like slavery has existed for centuries. He laughs and says he does not expect his slaves to be honest, as the system of slavery forces them to resort to cheating and dishonesty just to get by. Elsewhere in Africa, there are still societies that practice slavery. This is a nation that practiced slavery, genocide of the native peoples, Jim Crow apartheid and war mongering. This year the UN will organize exhibitions, concerts and studies meant to deepen knowledge about the banned practice of slavery. I have also argued that these consequences of the wide acceptance of the race idea helped to perpetuate and to rationalize the practice of slavery. In his thesis, he described in detail the places and tribal groups where slavery is still practiced. It is quite understandable that a religion practiced under slavery would emphasize evil spirits. It also says that the ‘practice of slavery constitutes a crime against humanity.’ Of all the cruel practices of slavery, Douglass considers the fate of his grandmother most unacceptable. It comes as a surprise to missionaries arriving fresh from the west of Ireland to hear that slavery has been practiced in Brazil right up to the present time. And the biggest difference between the two social systems was slavery. Mauritania is one of the last places on earth where slavery is widely practiced. When slavery was first practiced in the Americas during the early colonial period, it was purely for economic use. Lincoln sold a war against slavery as a war for the Union. But should current day white Americans pay reparations to descendants of blacks for slavery that was practiced more than a century ago? Here is one man's story about the practice of slavery in the country. Ruffin reasoned that hirers and owners should hold the same power, else the entire system of slavery would crumble. The English developed a sugar plantation system that thrived until the abolition of slavery, when the system collapsed. Despite global condemnation, the international community continues to be confronted with practices analogous to slavery. Synonyms bondage, enslavement, servitude, subjugation, thraldom, thrall, serfdom, vassalage, enthralment, yoke 1.2 A condition of having to work very hard without proper remuneration or appreciation. female domestic slavery 女性家庭奴役。 Example sentencesExamples Thousands of North Korean men, women and children are forced to work and often perish under conditions of slavery. In turn, these companies have taken advantage of dire drought conditions in parts of Brazil to entice workers into slavery. More trade will not break the chains of debt slavery. Women have been abducted by armed men, detained for a time in conditions of sexual slavery, raped and made to perform domestic chores. Thirty two years later, the life of the Bahamian is still sadly crippled by the manacles of marginalisation and the chains of economic slavery. Then I shrug and feel the chains of urban slavery slip from my shoulders in my sweat. The nation thus becomes the new justification for domestic slavery. She was too intelligent and too well educated for domestic slavery. They would be back in L.A. a whole month before Uni resumed, but, as Jessi had said, it would be good to get settled prior to the hard slavery of the final year. Eastern Europe's subordination is a feminized or festishized position: domestic slavery in the world order. Hardly any women worked but most spent 32 hours a week on unpaid domestic slavery. Experts say police corruption - in Italy and in the native countries of these women - makes it harder to battle sex slavery. Also, with the competitive slavery of the profit system gone, we could spend more on researching environmentally safe methods to boost production. She is working hard towards cutting out any need for slavery in her life and asserts her right to work part-time without it being seen as a sign of marginalisation. Synonyms drudgery, toil, (hard) slog, hard labour, grind, sweated labour Australian/New Zealand informal (hard) yakka archaic travail, moil 1.3 Excessive dependence on or devotion to something. 过分依赖；过分投入 slavery to tradition 对传统的过分依赖。 Example sentencesExamples The one response that can rescue us from this slavery to our own works is the presentation of the Christian message as the only truly liberating force. Thank you for calling me out of my slavery to the bottle and my worship of alcohol. We haven't just gone for a compromise, we've given in, capitulated and sold ourselves into slavery. Their ever-shorter skirts and tight blouses might look rebellious, but their pack mentality guarantees their slavery to fashion. They look at us coquettishly, which makes their slavery to fashion all the more pathetic. Such arguments only show the mental slavery to which these people have succumbed. Paul does not explain what comprises this slavery to idols. And just as they were delivered from their slavery, we, too, have been delivered by Jesus from our slavery to sin. It is not loving for the Church to encourage us to live in slavery to this mortal flesh. Our symbol of freedom becomes an emblem of our slavery to an insane idea. The modern day slavery of the capitalist system is exposed in a satirical and playful way. No enslavement and no tyranny are as ruthless and as demanding as slavery to physical desires and passions. Augustine was in a garden in Milan, overwhelmed by his sinfulness, especially his slavery to sexual desire. Empower us to live in your great Spirit, standing firm against all that would imprison your people in slavery to worldly idols. A fear of missing the train, a slavery to time, has provided ten minutes before the train leaves. Feminism made it okay for me to have that abortion, an act that saved me from twenty years of slavery to something I wasn't even ready for. I grew up under the heavy yoke of religion and its mental slavery to fear, and the economic domination of the church in the name of God. He is saying that we have been set free from slavery to the reign of sin. Scotland, he said, was being sold into slavery, its privileges were being lost, its freedoms curtailed. The bonds of familial affection threaten to mutate into the bonds of slavery at a moment's notice. Rhymes Avery, bravery, knavery, quavery, Savery, savory, savoury, wavery Definition of slavery in US English: slavery nounˈsleɪv(ə)riˈslāv(ə)rē 1The state of being a slave. 奴隶身份，奴役 thousands had been sold into slavery 成千上万的人被卖为奴。 Example sentencesExamples Had Joseph not been kidnapped and sold into slavery, he would not have been in a position to help his family in their time of need. Moreover, there have been UN reports of children being sold into slavery and prostitution. They insisted that since they had lived on free soil, their bonds of slavery were no longer valid. You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. What happened to the Scots sold into slavery in Barbados? When she escaped the first time, Nataly was taken in by a Moldovan woman who then sold her back into slavery. Set against the American Civil War, this city was the scene of another kind of slavery and subjugation. Nothing was heard of it again and it is thought that those who survived the voyage were sold into slavery in north Africa. But fears are growing that orphaned children are being trafficked by unscrupulous criminals and sold into slavery and prostitution. When Nicholas heard that the father was sick with grief that he might have to sell his daughters into slavery, he knew he must help. A police spokesman in the capital Abuja said authorities were looking into whether there were plans to sell some into slavery. A thriving trade in child abductions is rife throughout the country which sees many young children sold into slavery or the sex trade. She might as well have been going to a Calcutta slum or sold into slavery. In Sweden, factors like famine and civil war have driven the Dinha tribes from their land in the South leading to many being sold into slavery. It was at that age that he was sold into slavery by a group of Irish marauders that raided his village. The stronger ones would be sold into slavery or servitude. Few women suspect they will be sold into sexual slavery. In third-world countries, unwanted babies are often abandoned or sold into slavery. And in China more than 15,000 women will be sold into sexual slavery each year. Young women being sold into sex slavery is not unheard of in Aruba. Synonyms bondage, enslavement, servitude, subjugation, thraldom, thrall, serfdom, vassalage, enthralment, yoke 1.1 The practice or system of owning slaves. 奴隶制；蓄奴 Example sentencesExamples Here is one man's story about the practice of slavery in the country. But should current day white Americans pay reparations to descendants of blacks for slavery that was practiced more than a century ago? I have also argued that these consequences of the wide acceptance of the race idea helped to perpetuate and to rationalize the practice of slavery. Ruffin reasoned that hirers and owners should hold the same power, else the entire system of slavery would crumble. Elsewhere in Africa, there are still societies that practice slavery. The English developed a sugar plantation system that thrived until the abolition of slavery, when the system collapsed. This year the UN will organize exhibitions, concerts and studies meant to deepen knowledge about the banned practice of slavery. Despite global condemnation, the international community continues to be confronted with practices analogous to slavery. Mauritania is one of the last places on earth where slavery is widely practiced. Of all the cruel practices of slavery, Douglass considers the fate of his grandmother most unacceptable. It also says that the ‘practice of slavery constitutes a crime against humanity.’ This is a nation that practiced slavery, genocide of the native peoples, Jim Crow apartheid and war mongering. Lincoln sold a war against slavery as a war for the Union. And the biggest difference between the two social systems was slavery. When slavery was first practiced in the Americas during the early colonial period, it was purely for economic use. It is not hard to believe the very worst of any country where a system like slavery has existed for centuries. In his thesis, he described in detail the places and tribal groups where slavery is still practiced. He laughs and says he does not expect his slaves to be honest, as the system of slavery forces them to resort to cheating and dishonesty just to get by. It comes as a surprise to missionaries arriving fresh from the west of Ireland to hear that slavery has been practiced in Brazil right up to the present time. It is quite understandable that a religion practiced under slavery would emphasize evil spirits. Synonyms bondage, enslavement, servitude, subjugation, thraldom, thrall, serfdom, vassalage, enthralment, yoke 1.2 A condition compared to that of a slave in respect of exhausting labor or restricted freedom. 奴役状况，苦役状态 female domestic slavery 女性家庭奴役。 Example sentencesExamples They would be back in L.A. a whole month before Uni resumed, but, as Jessi had said, it would be good to get settled prior to the hard slavery of the final year. Also, with the competitive slavery of the profit system gone, we could spend more on researching environmentally safe methods to boost production. She is working hard towards cutting out any need for slavery in her life and asserts her right to work part-time without it being seen as a sign of marginalisation. In turn, these companies have taken advantage of dire drought conditions in parts of Brazil to entice workers into slavery. The nation thus becomes the new justification for domestic slavery. Experts say police corruption - in Italy and in the native countries of these women - makes it harder to battle sex slavery. Women have been abducted by armed men, detained for a time in conditions of sexual slavery, raped and made to perform domestic chores. Eastern Europe's subordination is a feminized or festishized position: domestic slavery in the world order. More trade will not break the chains of debt slavery. Hardly any women worked but most spent 32 hours a week on unpaid domestic slavery. Thousands of North Korean men, women and children are forced to work and often perish under conditions of slavery. She was too intelligent and too well educated for domestic slavery. Thirty two years later, the life of the Bahamian is still sadly crippled by the manacles of marginalisation and the chains of economic slavery. Then I shrug and feel the chains of urban slavery slip from my shoulders in my sweat. Synonyms drudgery, toil, slog, hard slog, hard labour, grind, sweated labour 1.3 Excessive dependence on or devotion to something. 过分依赖；过分投入 slavery to tradition 对传统的过分依赖。 Example sentencesExamples He is saying that we have been set free from slavery to the reign of sin. I grew up under the heavy yoke of religion and its mental slavery to fear, and the economic domination of the church in the name of God. No enslavement and no tyranny are as ruthless and as demanding as slavery to physical desires and passions. Scotland, he said, was being sold into slavery, its privileges were being lost, its freedoms curtailed. Such arguments only show the mental slavery to which these people have succumbed. Augustine was in a garden in Milan, overwhelmed by his sinfulness, especially his slavery to sexual desire. It is not loving for the Church to encourage us to live in slavery to this mortal flesh. Our symbol of freedom becomes an emblem of our slavery to an insane idea. We haven't just gone for a compromise, we've given in, capitulated and sold ourselves into slavery. Empower us to live in your great Spirit, standing firm against all that would imprison your people in slavery to worldly idols. They look at us coquettishly, which makes their slavery to fashion all the more pathetic. And just as they were delivered from their slavery, we, too, have been delivered by Jesus from our slavery to sin. The modern day slavery of the capitalist system is exposed in a satirical and playful way. Paul does not explain what comprises this slavery to idols. A fear of missing the train, a slavery to time, has provided ten minutes before the train leaves. Feminism made it okay for me to have that abortion, an act that saved me from twenty years of slavery to something I wasn't even ready for. Thank you for calling me out of my slavery to the bottle and my worship of alcohol. The bonds of familial affection threaten to mutate into the bonds of slavery at a moment's notice. The one response that can rescue us from this slavery to our own works is the presentation of the Christian message as the only truly liberating force. Their ever-shorter skirts and tight blouses might look rebellious, but their pack mentality guarantees their slavery to fashion.
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