slaving

英：['sleɪvɪŋ]

美：['sleɪvɪŋ]

• n.辅助设备；从属；从属作用；跟踪
• adj.繁重的
• 动词slave的现在分词形式.

noun

someone captured, sold, or born into chattel slavery It is evident now, if it never was before, that the development and prosperity of the European colonies in the New World depended upon the labor of these millions of African slaves and their enslaved descendants.—Gordon S. Wood Our poor and forlorn brother whom thou has labelled "slave" is also a man. … God made him such, and his brother cannot unmake him.—Henry Highland GarnetNote: Though still frequently encountered in English, use of the term slave is diminishing relative to such descriptors as "enslaved people" or "the enslaved" when referring to African Americans who were subjected to chattel slavery. In addition to individuals and communities, many institutions—including but not limited to museums, national parks, universities, and media outlets—have updated their language to emphasize the humanity of individuals who were forced to labor for the profit of others under threat of violence, separation from family and friends, and death.

Slaves … could be bought, sold, moved about, inherited, given away, insured, and used as collateral for all kinds of business transactions.—Nell Irvin Painter

someone (such as a factory worker or domestic laborer) who is coerced often under threat of violence to work for little or no pay … the continuing scourge of human slaves being used in the supply chain at both a local and international level.—Romy Hawatt When people buy slaves today they don't ask for a receipt or ownership papers, but they do gain control—and they use violence to maintain this control.—Kevin Bales

… garment workers who were detained by immigration authorities after a raid had found them being kept as slaves in an El Monte sweatshop.—Melanie Mason

someone held captive and forced to perform sexual acts usually under threat of violence and often for the purposes of commercial prostitution : sex slave I consider sex trafficking to be a grotesque, yet highly profitable, component of contemporary slavery. … I met hundreds of slaves during eight years of research in more than a dozen countries, and I met with the traffickers, slave owners, and other criminals who exploited them.—Siddharth Kara

… women held as slaves by an Islamic State fighter are appealing to the UN to intervene in their case for compensation in a move lawyers hope will help fix a "lawless" global system that is failing torture survivors. … "We've got women who experienced sexual violence and violence generally …," said [Yasmin] Waljee [attorney].—Kaamil Ahmed

often disapproving someone or something that is completely subservient to a dominating person or influence Markets are slaves of liquidity.—Deepak Shenoy … Americans are slaves to the clock, constantly watching our watches until the two hands line up in a specific way that tells us it's time to do something different.—David Brown

a slave to fashion/technology

geographical name

river 258 miles (415 kilometers) long in Canada flowing from the western end of Lake Athabasca north into Great Slave Lake

verb

intransitive verb

to work very hard for long hours or under difficult conditions : drudge

to traffic in people to be sold into slavery

transitive verb

to make directly responsive to another mechanism

archaic enslave

adjective

of, relating to, involving, or used for slavery or enslaved people a slave auction slave labor a slave economy The relation between freedom and literacy became the compelling theme of the slave narratives, the great body of printed books that ex-slaves generated to assert their common humanity with white Americans and to indict the system that had oppressed them.—Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

slave traders

held involuntarily and forced under threat of violence to work without pay for the profit of another : enslaved slave workers The law very specifically withheld from a slave woman the rights of personhood and concomitant protection of the state.—Catherine Clinton

born of slave parents

favoring or legally permitting slavery the slave states

a slave territory

operated by remote controlspecifically: responding to manipulation of the master controls of an apparatus There's also provision for attaching external slave flash units for greater flash range when using print film. —Herbert Keppler … had the ultimate compact-disc system—a master machine and four optional slave machines—that will load and play 250 discs altogether … —William D. Marbach

the device now tucked away behind the dials isn't properly a clockwork but a … slave unit activated by an electric clock inside the bank—The New Yorker

Noun Middle English sclave, from Anglo-French or Medieval Latin; Anglo-French esclave, from Medieval Latin sclavus, from Sclavus Slav; from the frequent enslavement of Slavs in central Europe during the early Middle Ages

The first known use of slave was in the 14th century

slavishadjective

of or characteristic of someone held in forced servitude

lacking in independence or originality

slavish imitators

slave1 of 2noun

a person held in forced servitude

disapproving a person who is completely subservient to a dominating influence

a slave to bad habits

a person who performs difficult or boring work : drudge

slave2 of 2verb

to work like a slave : drudge