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- chiefly historical a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them〈主史〉奴隶。
1.1
- a person who works very hard without proper remuneration or appreciation苦工, 奴仆：
by the time I was ten, I had become her slave, doing all the housework.
我十岁时成了她的奴仆, 干所有的家务活。
1.2
- a person who is excessively dependent upon or controlled by something奴隶般受控制的人：
the poorest people of the world are slaves to the banks
世界上最穷的人是银行的奴隶
she was no slave to fashion.
她绝不赶时髦。
1.3
- a device, or part of one, directly controlled by another从动装置：
as modifier a slave cassette deck.一个从动盒式录音机。比较MASTER1.
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1- work excessively hard奴隶般工作, 拼命工作：
after slaving away for fourteen years all he gets is two thousand.
在做牛做马地工作了14年之后, 他所得到的只是2,000元。
1.1
- with obj. subject (a device) to control by another使（装置）从属于（另一装置）：
should the need arise, the two channels can be slaved together.
假如有必要, 这两个频道可以从动控制。
词源
Middle 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.