servitude
servitude 英 [ˈsɜ:vɪtju:d] 美 [ˈsɜrvətud]
n. 劳役，奴役；地役权；奴隶状态
名词复数:servitudes
- If you're free-spirited you won't enjoy servitude, mainly because servitude means you have to answer to a master, like a servant does.
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- n. 劳役，奴役；地役权；奴隶状态
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1. Sorrow was equally strong for those women left behind, whose happiness hinged to a great degree on the kindness of their husband’s family, with whom they lived a life of virtual servitude.
对那些新婚就留守在家乡的女人来说，悲哀是同样巨大的，她们的幸福在相当程度上取决于丈夫的家庭对她们的好坏，她们实际上过着奴役般的生活。
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2. There is no room for complacency on this issue, or dismissal because the problem is not considered to be on a significant scale – it involves servitude, and therefore the devastation of human lives.
在这个问题上没有自满或是听之任之的余地，因为这个问题被认为范围不大—尽管它涉及到奴役和人类生命的毁灭。
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3. Studies of land tenure are closely linked to issues of servitude and subordination among China's peasantry in each period of history.
在中国的每一个历史时期，赋税的研究和土地使用权、中国农民阶级的被奴役状态紧密相联。
- servitude (n.) early 15c., "condition of being enslaved," from Old French servitude, servitute (13c.) and directly from Late Latin servitudo "slavery," from Latin servus "a slave" (see serve (v.)) + abstract noun suffix.
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