en·slave
verb/ɪnˈsleɪv/
/ɪnˈsleɪv/
[usually passive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they enslave | /ɪnˈsleɪv/ /ɪnˈsleɪv/ |
| he / she / it enslaves | /ɪnˈsleɪvz/ /ɪnˈsleɪvz/ |
| past simple enslaved | /ɪnˈsleɪvd/ /ɪnˈsleɪvd/ |
| past participle enslaved | /ɪnˈsleɪvd/ /ɪnˈsleɪvd/ |
| -ing form enslaving | /ɪnˈsleɪvɪŋ/ /ɪnˈsleɪvɪŋ/ |
- enslave somebody to make somebody the property of another person who they are forced to work for and obey
使某人成为另一个人的财产，他们被迫为之工作并服从 - enslaved people
被奴役的人 - Americans whose ancestors were enslaved
祖先曾被奴役的美国人 - organized crime groups who traffic and enslave people
有组织的犯罪集团贩卖和奴役人民
- enslaved people
- (formal) to make somebody/something completely depend on something so that they cannot manage without it
使受控制；征服；制伏 - be enslaved (to something) Our civilization remains enslaved to materialism.
我们的文明仍然受唯物主义的奴役。
- be enslaved (to something) Our civilization remains enslaved to materialism.
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘make (a person) subject to a superstition, passion, etc.’; formerly also as inslave): from en-, in- (as an intensifier) + slave.