| 单词 | slave |
| 释义 | slave —slaveless, adj. —slavelike, adj. /slayv/, n. , v. , slaved, slaving. n. 1. a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; a bond servant. 2. a person entirely under the domination of some influence or person: a slave to a drug. 3. a drudge: a housekeeping slave. 4. a slave ant. 5. Photog. a subsidiary flash lamp actuated through its photoelectric cell when the principal flash lamp is discharged. 6. Mach. a mechanism under control of and repeating the actions of a similar mechanism. Cf. master (def. 19). v.i. 7. to work like a slave; drudge. 8. to engage in the slave trade; procure, transport, or sell slaves. v.t. 9. to connect (a machine) to a master as its slave. 10. Archaic. to enslave. [1250-1300; ME sclave < ML sclavus (masc.), sclava (fem.) slave, special use of Sclavus Slav, so called because Slavs were commonly enslaved in the early Middle Ages; see SLAV] Syn. 7. toil, labor, slog, grind. |
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