bondage

• n. 奴役，束缚；奴役身份

来自PIE *bheue, 存在，生长，居住，词源同be，原指农夫，佃农，同husband. 后词义受bond影响。

bondage (n.)

c. 1300, "condition of a serf or slave," from Anglo-Latin bondagium, from Middle English bond "a serf, tenant farmer," from Old English bonda "householder," from Old Norse boandi "free-born farmer," noun use of present participle of boa "dwell, prepare, inhabit," from PIE *bhow-, from root *bheue- "to be, exist, dwell" (see be). Meaning in English changed by influence of bond. The sexual sado-masochism sense is recorded by 1966.

1. women's liberation from the bondage of domestic life

女性从家庭生活束缚中的解脱

来自《权威词典》

2. He is in bondage to his ambition.

他被他的野心所支配.

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

3. All people, she said, lived their lives in bondage to hunger, pain and lust.

她说，所有人的生活都受缚于饥饿、苦痛和欲望。

来自柯林斯例句

4. They aim to deliver the people who are in bondage to superstitious belief.

他们的目的在于解脱那些受迷信束缚的人.

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. The Party claimed, of course, to have liberated the proles from bondage.

当然啦, 按党的说法, 它在把无产者从枷锁当中解放出来.

来自英汉文学