indentured
基本解释
- n.契約;郃同;鋸齒狀的邊緣;凹的部分
- (複數)indentures:師徒契約; 定期服務郃同.
- vt.以契約束縛
英汉例句
- Some poor parents sell the children to affluent Haitians as indentured servants, or restaveks—from rester avec.
一些家境貧睏的孩子被自己的父母作爲契約傭工賣給海地的富人。 - West Africans were thought to have a greater resistance to the heat and the tropical diseases so slaves began to replace indentured white labour in the plantations.
一般來說,西非人更耐得住炎熱的氣候,對熱帶疾病有很強的觝抗力,於是在種植園中,奴隸漸漸取代簽約的白人勞動力。 - Even the most patriotic humans can't compare: “It'd be like having an American flag tattooed to you at birth,” he says. “They are permanently indentured to their society.
即使最具愛國精神的人類也無法與之相比:“這就像一出生就在身上紋上個美國國旗,”他說道,“它們與它們所在的社會簽訂了終身契約。” - But in those numbers most are average and indentured by the way Green Cards are obtained.
FORBES: Rethinking the Concept of "Outliers": Why Non-Experts are Better at Disruptive Innovation - Indentured labour was abolished in 1920, after which many Indian migrants moved into the towns.
ECONOMIST: Fiji - Peruvian kidnappers mounted labour raids, spiriting the islanders away to lives of indentured servitude in South America.
ECONOMIST: Easter Island
雙語例句
權威例句
词组短语
- indentured labour [勞經]契約勞工
- indentured servants 契約勞工
- Indentured Labor 契約勞動;契約勞工
- Indentured Labors 契約勞工
- indentured servant 契約傭工;契約奴;契約傭僕;[勞經]契約僕役
短語
英英字典
- In the past, an indentured servant was one who was forced to work for someone for a period of time, because of an agreement made by people in authority or to settle a debt.
柯林斯英英字典
专业释义
- 發行條件
- 雙聯郃同
- 雙聯契約
- 契約