| 释义 |
thraldom|ˈθrɔːldəm|
Forms: see next.
[f. next + -dom.]
The state or condition of being a thrall; bondage, servitude; captivity. a. lit.
c1205Lay. 29156 Summe heo fluȝen to Irlonde..and þer wuneden þeouwe inne þraldome. c1250Gen. & Ex. 2322 Driuen In-to ðraldom, euermor to liuen. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xviii. 103 And ȝowre Fraunchise, þat fre was fallen is in thraldome. 1450–1530Myrr. our Ladye 331 Theyr delyuerance oute of the thraldome of Egypte. 1590Webbe Trav. (Arb.) 14 In the midst of my thraldome in Turkie. 1617Moryson Itin. ii. 25 Tyrone was among the Irish celebrated as the Deliverer of his Country from thraldome. 1756Hume Hist. Eng. II. xli. 432 Elizabeth..would have been sure to detain him in perpetual thraldom. 1872Yeats Techn. Hist. Comm. 165 Shoemakers were among the first to rescue themselves from the thraldom of the lords of the soil.
b. fig.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 139 Alle oðer daȝes of þe wike beoð to þreldome to þis dei. c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. II. 53 Þe moost þraldom and worst of alle is þe þraldom of synne. c1450tr. De Imitatione ii. xii. 58 To chastise þe body, to bring it in þraldom. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. xv. (1634) 74 This miserable estate whereunto man is now in thraldome. 1755Young Centaur iii. Wks. 1757 IV. 170 This thraldom to their pleasures. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 461 She may deliver herself up again to the thraldom of pleasures and pains. |