thrall

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in somebody’s/something’s thrall (also in thrall to somebody/something) literaryEFFECT/INFLUENCE controlled or strongly influenced by someone or something 在某人/某事的奴役[束缚，控制]之下

We have a congress that is in thrall to special interest groups.

我们的国会受制于一些特殊利益集团。

Examples from the Corpus

in somebody’s/something’s thrall• I couldn't bear to be in its thrall for another day.• But the demon which had driven him to drink that night, after months of abstinence, had him in its thrall.• We have a Congress that is in thrall to the gun lobby.• Of the literati in their thrall, Budd Schulberg emerged as the writer who told you most about the bouts.• He had that resigned helplessness which hospital patients and people in the thrall of religious experience have.

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thrall• Self-pity evaporates as she's drawn to playground attendant Billy, unhealthily in thrall to macho pack leader Len.• Something shallow, unearned, but capable of putting you in thrall.• But the demon which had driven him to drink that night, after months of abstinence, had him in its thrall.• Here was the beginning of Canetti's slow escape from the thrall of Karl Kraus.• He had that resigned helplessness which hospital patients and people in the thrall of religious experience have.• Of the literati in their thrall, Budd Schulberg emerged as the writer who told you most about the bouts.

Origin thrall

(900-1000) Old Norse thræll

thrall noun

Chinese

Corpus

TOEFL BNC: 21396 COCA: 21491

thrall

To have an effect on someone's emotions or attitudes: influence, decide, lead to...

Not free or independent: dependent, subject to something, bound...

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