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TOEFL BNC: 3948 COCA: 2727

slave

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Related topics: Sociology
slave1 /sleɪv/ ●●○ noun [countableC]  
1  SSLOW POSITION OR RANKsomeone who is owned by another person and works for them for no money 奴隶
the slave trade (=the buying and selling of slaves, especially Africans who were taken to America) 奴隶买卖〔尤指过去对被抓到美洲的非洲人进行的买卖〕
2  be a slave to/of something EFFECT/INFLUENCEto be so strongly influenced by something that you cannot make your own decisions – used to show disapproval 成为某事物的奴隶，完全受某物的控制〔含贬义〕
 a slave to fashion
时尚的奴隶
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be a slave to/of something• Gone are the days when those with the will to be chic had to be slaves of fashion.• This happened a mere seven or eight times a day and Jack was a slave to her whims.• We need not be slaves to our technologies.• He would not be a slave to wealth.• But most overseas buyers of the clothes are not sports fans - they are slaves to the fashion for Americana.• They are slaves to the prejudices of the epoch in which they were written.• You don't need to be a slave to fashion.• They both show how we are slaves of the car.
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slave• Seder participants recline on pillows, for example, because they had no such luxury as slaves, the children said.• Because slaves can have their interests counted equitably and still remain in bondage.• There was a female slave working outside, but when Burun rode up she did not even raise her head.• But trade in slaves has been a universal phenomenon, affecting all primitive societies.• These areas need developing, so entrepreneurs pump in investment: capital accumulated from the slave trade, sugar and cotton.• Many intransigent southerners never yielded the notion that the war itself was of no importance if the slave system was not maintained.• The slaves rose and backed out of the chamber, their eyes cast down.
the slave trade• From the late 1780s onwards evangelicals contributed substantially to the pamphlet literature against the slave trade.• These areas need developing, so entrepreneurs pump in investment: capital accumulated from the slave trade, sugar and cotton.• During the first half of the nineteenth century Britain made the slave trade illegal.• By 1714 there was no longer any monopoly of the slave trade.• They devised a simple solution to this problem: the slave trade.• Such activities were by no means limited to the slave trade.• Analogies with the slave trade and slavery and the movement against them were apparent to such reformers.
slave2 verb [intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]  
WORK HARDto work very hard with little time to rest 拼命干，苦干
slave away (at something)
 I’ve been slaving away at this report.
我一直在拼命写这份报告。
slave over
 He’s been slaving over his history essay.
他一直在拼命写历史课论文。
slave (away) over a hot stove (=cook – used humorously) 围着灶台转〔指下厨做饭，幽默用法〕
Examples from the Corpus
slave• You must cease this nonsensical life of yours, slaving away as if you were a servant!• Because I like you, Breeze, and it makes my blood boil to think of you slaving away as you do.• She spends the next ten years taking in washing, slaving away to pay back the money they borrowed to replace it.• Plus it has an effects loop, and a preamp out for slaving up to other power amps, and so on.
slave away (at something)• Not much, is it, for a lifetime slaving away?• You must cease this nonsensical life of yours, slaving away as if you were a servant!• Because I like you, Breeze, and it makes my blood boil to think of you slaving away as you do.• Because you're slaving away in that little office all day doing stupid, piddling little jobs for me!• She spends the next ten years taking in washing, slaving away to pay back the money they borrowed to replace it.
Origin slave1
(1200-1300) Old French esclave, from Medieval Latin sclavus, from Sclavus ( → SLAVIC); because in the early Middle Ages many Slavic people in central Europe were slaves
slave1 nounslave2 verb
Chinese
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TOEFL BNC: 3948 COCA: 2727
slave

noun

ADJECTIVE | VERB + SLAVE | SLAVE + NOUN | PREPOSITION ADJECTIVE➤escaped, fugitive, runaway逃跑的奴隸；逃亡的奴隸➤emancipated, freed解放的／獲得自由的奴隸➤former前奴隸◇the son of former slaves前奴隸的兒子➤domestic, personal家奴➤plantation種植園奴隸➤galley槳帆船上的奴隸◇galley slaves at the oars of Mediterranean ships在地中海槳帆船上划槳的奴隸➤wage工資奴隸◇They work as wage slaves for 13 cents an hour.他們是掙工錢的奴隸，每小時掙 13 分。➤sex性奴➤virtual幾乎是奴隸◇She was forced to work as a virtual slave for a rich family.她被迫幾乎像奴隸一樣為一家富人幹活。VERB + SLAVE➤become成為奴隸▸➤have, keep, own擁有奴隸➤export, import輸出／輸入奴隸▸➤buy, take sb as買奴隸；把某人抓來當奴隸▸➤sell (sb as)販賣奴隸；把（某人）賣作奴隸▸➤use (sb as)役使奴隸；將（某人）當奴隸使喚➤treat對待奴隸◇He treated the slaves like animals.他待奴隸就像對待動物一樣。➤emancipate, free, liberate解放奴隸◇landowners who freed their slaves voluntarily自覺解放奴隸的地主SLAVE + NOUN➤labour/labor奴隸的勞動◇Without slave labour / labor, the tobacco industry would have collapsed.沒有奴隸的勞動，煙草業早就破產了。➤labourer/laborer幹苦役的奴隸▸➤master, owner, trader奴隸主；奴隸販賣者▸➤market, trade, traffic奴隸市場；奴隸買賣；非法奴隸販運◇the abolition of the slave trade廢除奴隸買賣➤ship販奴船➤population奴隸人口➤society奴隸社會◇studies comparing slave societies throughout history對歷史上奴隸社會進行的比較研究➤state蓄奴州◇Virginia was the largest slave state in the Union.聯邦最大的蓄奴州是弗吉尼亞州。➤plantation奴隸種植園➤rebellion, revolt, uprising奴隸暴動／反抗／起義➤quarters奴隸的住所◇the slave quarters at the rear of the house房子後面奴隸的住處➤girl, woman女童奴；女奴➤wages (figurative) 微薄的血汗錢◇I'll be working long hours for slave wages!為那丁點兒血汗錢我得當牛做馬好幾個小時！PREPOSITION➤slave of完全受⋯控制的人◇a slave of habit受習慣支配的人➤slave to完全依賴⋯的人◇a slave to fashion拚命趕時髦的人
TOEFL BNC: 3948 COCA: 2727
slave verb
⇨ work 1
TOEFL BNC: 3948 COCA: 2727
slave
Slaves and slavery: slave, slavery, slave trade...
People who work hard and are busy: slave, machine, workhorse...
To work hard: work at, forge, overwork...

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