indentured
indentured [in'dentʃəd]
adj. 受契约束缚的 v. 以契约约束；签订契约（indenture的过去分词）
- To be indentured is to be forced to work by some contract. It started out as a word for a contract between masters and apprentices. Now it describes anyone bound to work, like it or not, because of some deal.
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- adj. 受契约束缚的
- v. 以契约约束；签订契约（indenture的过去分词）
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1. In modern Japan, girls are not sold into indentured service, nor are they coerced into sexual relations.
在现代日本，女孩不会因为契约而进行性服务，也不会被迫发生性关系。
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2. Some poor parents sell the children to affluent Haitians as indentured servants, or restaveks—from rester avec.
一些家境贫困的孩子被自己的父母作为契约佣工卖给海地的富人。
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3. Even the most patriotic humans can't compare: “It'd be like having an American flag tattooed to you at birth,” he says. “They are permanently indentured to their society.
即使最具爱国精神的人类也无法与之相比：“这就像一出生就在身上纹上个美国国旗，”他说道，“它们与它们所在的社会签订了终身契约。”
- indentured (adj.) "bound by indenture," 1748 (in indentured servant), past-participle adjective from indenture (v.).
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