| 释义 |
bond·age
I. \ˈbändij, -dēj\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin bondagium, from Middle English bonde peasant, serf + Latin -agium -age
1.
a. : the tenure or service of a villein, serf, or slave
b. chiefly Scotland : services due from a tenant farmer to his proprietor or from a cottager to the farmer
2. : the quality or state of being bound:
a. : restraint of personal liberty by compulsion : serfdom, captivity
< the bondage of the Hebrews in Egypt >
b. : voluntary subjugation (as to some service or duty)
< she had gone into bondage among the aristocracy as a governess — Virginia Woolf >
c. : servitude or subjugation (as to someone superior or dominating or to some power, motive, or appetite)
< with the House of Representatives in bondage to its leaders — Lindsay Rogers >
< the bondage of specialization >
< the obvious and painful bondage of shyness — Helen Howe >
d. linguistics : the state of being a bound form
II. noun
: sadomasochistic sexual practices involving the physical restraint of one partner |