slave

noun

/sleɪv/

a person who is owned by another person and is forced to work for and obey them被另一个人拥有并被迫为他们工作并服从他们的人
- A former slave, he graduated from Claflin University in South Carolina.他以前是个奴隶，后来毕业于南卡罗来纳州克拉夫林大学。
- She treated her daughter like a slave.她对待女儿像对待奴隶一样。
- the slave trader Edward Colston奴隶贩子爱德华·科尔斯顿
- freed slaves被释放的奴隶
- Prisoners of war were regularly sold as slaves.战俘经常被贩卖为奴隶。
Many people prefer to use the term enslaved person because it shows that slavery is forced onto people and that being a slave is not part of their identity or natural condition. see also sex slave, wage slave
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Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- escaped
- fugitive
- runaway
- …
verb + slave
- become
- have
- keep
- …
slave + noun
- labour/labor
- labourer/laborer
- master
- …
preposition
- slave of
- slave to
a person who is so strongly influenced by something that they cannot live without it, or cannot make their own decisions完全受（某事物）控制的人；完全依赖（某事物）的人
- slave of something We are slaves of the motor car.我们离不了汽车。
- slave to something Sue's a slave to fashion.休是个拼命赶时髦的人。
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- escaped
- fugitive
- runaway
- …
verb + slave
- become
- have
- keep
- …
slave + noun
- labour/labor
- labourer/laborer
- master
- …
preposition
- slave of
- slave to
(specialist) a device that is directly controlled by another one从动装置

Word OriginMiddle English: shortening of Old French esclave, equivalent of medieval Latin sclava (feminine) ‘Slavonic (captive)’: the Slavonic peoples had been reduced to a servile state by conquest in the 9th cent.

slave

verb

/sleɪv/

[intransitive]

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they slave	/sleɪv/ /sleɪv/
he / she / it slaves	/sleɪvz/ /sleɪvz/
past simple slaved	/sleɪvd/ /sleɪvd/
past participle slaved	/sleɪvd/ /sleɪvd/
-ing form slaving	/ˈsleɪvɪŋ/ /ˈsleɪvɪŋ/

slave (away) (at something) to work very hard埋头苦干；卖力干活
- 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。
- 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。
Word OriginMiddle English: shortening of Old French esclave, equivalent of medieval Latin sclava (feminine) ‘Slavonic (captive)’: the Slavonic peoples had been reduced to a servile state by conquest in the 9th cent.