| 单词 | slave work |
| 释义 | > as lemmasslave work a. General use as a modifier (chiefly in sense A. 1), as in slave-master, slave revolt, slave song, slave work, etc. ΘΠ society > authority > [noun] > those in authority > person in authority > master of slaves patrona1665 patroon1671 Negro-holder1780 slave-master1822 slave-master1822 old master1845 society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > folk-song > black Jim Crow1832 plantation song1844 jubilee1872 slave song1881 calypso1900 kaiso1912 leggo1940 road march1951 soca1977 society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > servile or menial work thrall-workc1175 drudgery1548 slavery1551 journey-work1614 drudgery work1632 slave work1808 hackwork1824 dog's work1847 dog work1850 grind1851 daily grind1853 slave work1916 donkey-work1920 clock-punching1929 legwork1942 shitwork1958 kyeyo1996 1613 G. Chapman Reuenge Bussy D'Ambois iv. sig. H1 He had bought his bands out With their slaue blouds. 1791 W. Cowper Let. 27 May (1982) III. 519 As for Politics..I reck not, having no room in my head for any thing but the slave-bill. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 651 The violent remonstrances of our traders in favour of the inhuman slave-traffic. 1822 Sunday Times 20 Oct. 1/4 The Continental Monarchs were but so many slave-masters. 1852 J. M. Ludlow Hist. U.S. 195 The tendency of the slave-system being to divide the white population. 1881 Harper's Mag. May 818/2 The plaintive slave songs..have won popularity wherever the English language is spoken. 1916 D. H. Lawrence Twilight in Italy 303 Life is now a matter of selling oneself to slave-work. 1971 Black Scholar June 11/1 We were so abhorrent to our slavemasters that legal barriers were instituted to prevent the natural process of assimilation. 1996 Japan Times 29 Apr. 10/5 They did the samba and the capoeira, a martial-arts step used in slave revolts. 2007 I. McDonald Brasyl 72 There's a lot of old slave-days stuff down in the basements of this fazenda, including an iron slave-mask for gagging unruly peças that scares him. < as lemmas |
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