chattel
chattel 英 [ˈtʃætl] 美 [ˈtʃætl]
n. 动产；奴隶（常用复数）
名词复数:chattels
- All that stuff in your room? The books, posters, dirty sneakers and all of your other personal belongings? That's what we call chattel.
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- n. 动产；奴隶（常用复数）
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1. Lastly, the Court ruled that slaves—as chattel or private property—could not be taken away from their owners without due process.
最后，法院判决奴隶——作为动产或稀有财产——不经正当程序不得离开自己的主人。
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2. The two bankers, Phelps and Elder, sat off in a corner behind the dinner table, where they could finish their discussion of the new usury law and its effect on chattel security loans.
菲尔普斯和埃尔德两个银行家，坐在餐桌后的角落里，他们可以在那里把新的重利法，以及这个新法对动产证券贷款的影响讨论完毕。
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3. Why did chattel slavery take hold in the Americas?
为什么奴役制度在美洲能大行其道？
- chattel (n.) early 13c., chatel "property, goods," from Old French chatel "chattels, goods, wealth, possessions, property; profit; cattle," from Late Latin capitale "property" (see cattle, which is the Old North French form of the same word). Application to slaves is from 1640s and later became a rhetorical figure in the writings of abolitionists.
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