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单词 thrall
释义
thrall
noun[U]
uk
/θrɔːl/us
/θrɑːl/
in thrallliterary
If you are in thrall to someone or something, or in the thrall of someone or something, he, she, or it has a lot ofpowertocontrolyou:
（被某人或某物）束缚；奴役
Herlovefor him was like amadness, and she wascompletelyinitsthrall.她爱他如痴如狂，完全不能自拔。
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(Definition ofthrallfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

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Equally, they were by no means totally inthrallto populist sentiment.
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These conservatives were then joined by ' ' growth liberals ' ' in developing a model of city development inthrallto corporate interests.
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Insofar as he was a dualist, it was not because he wanted to keep part of the social world in thethrallof non-scientific beliefs.
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She reveals the entrapment of children in a consumer society, which leaves them relatively powerless, and inthrallto the illusion of choice and the orchestration of desire.
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Our currentthrallwith identities in the past, and the difficulties in penetrating those identities, are a reflection, or transferral, of our anxieties and interests in the present.
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In arguing for that philosophy one is inthrallto the grand myth of rationality and thereby one abandons the very philosophy that one is arguing in favour of.
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It is producer-oriented rather than consumer-oriented, and it is inthrallto the unions.
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They have, in addition to that, a system of deferred rebates by which they are held continually inthrallto that same builders' merchant.
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That economy continues to be inthrallto deflationary forces, which have proved very difficult to throw off.
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This report, inthrallto liberal orthodoxy, illustrates the cynicism of property owners and the miserable submission of reform policies to their lead.
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That situation puts the editors, or can put them, inthrallto the unions.
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I do not believe that they want to hold us inthrallin a relationship that we do not enjoy.
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It remains a party inthrallto economic illiteracy.
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But that is a quite different thing from being completely inthrallto the past.
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We are in thethrallof priorities and of priorities within priorities.
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