slave

英 [sleɪv]

美 [sleɪv]

n.  奴隶; 完全受(某事物)控制的人; 完全依赖(某事物)的人; 从动装置
v.  苦干; 辛勤地工作

复数：slaves　现在分词：slaving　过去分词：slaved　过去式：slaved　第三人称单数：slaves　

高考CET4CET6考研TOEFL计算机

Collins.2 / BNC.3948 / COCA.2727

短语动词

牛津词典

noun

• 奴隶
  a person who is legally owned by another person and is forced to work for them
  1. She treated her daughter like a slave.
     她对待女儿像对待奴隶一样。
• 完全受（某事物）控制的人；完全依赖（某事物）的人
  a person who is so strongly influenced by sth that they cannot live without it, or cannot make their own decisions
  1. We are slaves of the motor car.
     我们离不了汽车。
  2. Sue's a slave to fashion.
     休是个拼命赶时髦的人。
• 从动装置
  a device that is directly controlled by another one

verb

• 苦干；辛勤地工作
  to work very hard
  1. I've been slaving away all day trying to get this work finished.
     我整天苦干，想把这项工作赶完。
  2. I haven't got time to spend hours slaving over a hot stove (= doing a lot of cooking) .
     我没时间老围着灶台转。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 奴隶
  Aslaveis someone who is the property of another person and has to work for that person.
  1. The state of Liberia was formed a century and a half ago by freed slaves from the United States.
     150年前，从美国获得了自由归来的奴隶建立了利比里亚。
• N-COUNT 完全被控制的人;完全被影响的人
  You can describe someone as aslavewhen they are completely under the control of another person or of a powerful influence.
  1. Movie stars used to be slaves to the studio system.
     电影明星过去完全受制于大制片厂制度。
• VERB 辛苦地工作;卖命地干
  If you say that a personis slaving oversomething oris slaving forsomeone, you mean that they are working very hard.
  1. When you're busy all day the last thing you want to do is spend hours slaving over a hot stove.
     辛苦了一整天之后，最不愿意做的事情就是在热烘烘的炉子前再忙活上好几个钟头。
  2. Slave awaymeans the same asslave.
     slave away 同 slave
  3. He stares at the hundreds of workers slaving away in the intense sun.
     他凝视着在炎炎烈日下辛苦劳作的几百名工人。

英英释义

noun

• a person who is owned by someone
• someone who works as hard as a slave
  Synonym:striverhard worker
• someone entirely dominated by some influence or person
  1. a slave to fashion
  2. a slave to cocaine
  3. his mother was his abject slave

verb

• work very hard, like a slave
  Synonym:break one's backbuckle downknuckle down

双语例句

• If you weren't a slave, I'd squash you now.
  你要不是个奴隶，我早就宰了你了。
• Typing at that salary is slave labour.
  干薪金那么低的打字工作等于做苦工。
• Movie stars used to be slaves to the studio system.
  电影明星过去完全受制于大制片厂制度。
• As a child I was slave to my impulses;
  作为一个孩子，我的奴隶，我的冲动；
• But I have killed this fish which is my brother and now I must do the slave work.
  可是我杀死了这条鱼，它是我的兄弟，现在我得去干辛苦的活儿了。
• He's been forced into slave labour at burger bars to earn a bit of cash.
  为了挣点钱，他被迫到卖汉堡的小店里做苦工。
• He doubled the parts of king and slave in that play.
  在那个剧里，他兼演国王和奴隶。
• Liverpool grew fat on the basis of the slave trade.
  利物浦是靠奴隶贸易肥起来的。
• She was interested in slave and slavery.
  她对奴隶和奴隶制感兴趣。
• I could be born a slave and have the identity of a slave.
  我可能出生是一个奴隶，于是我就对奴隶认同。