喜樂美語

Picture a person whose time and body are not their own: someone else owns them, decides what they do, and pays them nothing. That total loss of choice is the centre of the word, and it is what the later, lighter uses borrow from.

可以想成：一個人的時間和身體都不屬於自己——有另一個人擁有他、決定他做什麼、而且不給工錢。這種「完全沒有選擇」的狀態是這個字的中心；後來比較輕鬆的比喻用法，借的都是這股沒有選擇的感覺。字面的意思牽涉真實的歷史，比喻用法在英文裡雖然常見，語氣輕得多。

登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

n複數 slaves

v過去式 slaved過去分詞 slaved-ing slaving三單 slaves

意思相反

masterrelaxownerrestfree personlaze

原始詞典資料14 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Slavename

  • 1

    Synonym of Sclavia.

slavenoun/sleɪv/

  • 1

    A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.

    • Fear of their cargo bred a savage cruelty into the crew. One captain, to strike terror into the rest, killed a slave and dividing heart, liver and entrails into 300 pieces made each of the slaves eat one, threatening those who refused with the same torture. Such incidents were not rare.
  • 2

    A drudge; one who labors or is obliged (e.g. by prior contract) to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant.

  • 3

    An abject person.

    • Art thou the ſlaue that with thy breath haſt kill'd / Mine innocent child?
  • 4

    One who has no power of resistance to something, one who surrenders to or is under the domination of something.

    • a slave to passion, to strong drink, or to ambition
    • Slave to the rhythm! / Keep it up, keep it up! / Never stop! Never stop!
  • 5

    BDSMlifestylesexualityA submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who consensually submits to, sexually or personally, serving one or more masters or mistresses.

    • In the clip the black female “slave” dons a chain around her neck for which her white mistress possesses the key. The black woman sub is further disciplined by the power of speech—the force of silence.
  • 6

    A sex slave, a person who is forced against their will to perform, for another person or group, sexual acts on a regular or continuing basis.

  • 7

    artscomputingengineeringA device (such as a secondary flash or hard drive) that is subject to the control of another (a master).

    • If you administer your own reverse DNS zones, remember to include them in your slave configuration.

slaveverb/sleɪv/

  • 1

    To work as a slaver, to enslave people.

    • MASSINISSA: Wilt thou be slaved? SOPHONISBA: No, free
    • The truth is from the Zambesi to Lake Nyasa on the north and east banks of the river, there is nothing but slaving — Africans selling each other . . .
  • 2

    To work hard.

    • I was slaving all day over a hot stove.
  • 3

    To place a device under the control of another.

    • to slave a hard disk
    • Slaving one digital audio device to another unit using timecode alone results in time-based synchronisation[…]

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

  • Slavey
  • Slav

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。