slave

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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〕

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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

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