indentured

英 [ɪnˈdentʃəd]

美 [ɪnˈdentʃərd]

adj.  签订契约的
v.  使签约为学徒（或劳工
indenture的过去分词和过去式

过去式：indentured　

COCA.24369

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 签订契约的
  In the past, anindenturedworker was one who was forced to work for someone for a period of time, because of an agreement made by people in authority.
  1. Daniel arrived in Maryland as an indentured servant.
     丹尼尔作为契约佣工来到马里兰州。

英英释义

adj

• bound by contract
  Synonym:apprenticedarticledbound

双语例句

• In 1834 the British freed the slaves who had been working the cane fields and brought in indentured workers from India and China.
  1834年，英国人释放了一直在甘蔗地里干活的奴隶，又从印度和中国招来许多契约工。
• There are far better ways to make a living than selling yourself into indentured servitude.
  我们有很多更好的方法去过生活，而不是把我们卖给一直劳动合同。
• The seeded enter into a relationship that operates like indentured servitude Lite.
  获得种子投资的对冲基金有点像契约奴工。
• The land was worked on by indentured labourers.
  这土地是由契约工人耕种的。
• Mr. Biswas is a typical cultural marginal man. His forefathers, as the indentured labors, move from India to Trinidad, the colony of Britain. Born in Trinidad, Biswas receives the Indian traditional culture and the western culture.
  主人公毕司沃斯先生是文化边缘人的典型代表，他的祖先作为劳工从印度移民到特立尼达这个英国的殖民地，出生于特立尼达的他受到了印度传统文化和西方文化的双重影响。
• In the late seventeenth century, African slaves began to replace white indentured servants in the southern us.
  在17世纪末期，非洲的奴隶开始在美国南方替白人契约仆役。
• Many, if not most, of the early colonists America arrived under some version of bound labor, either as a slave or an indentured servant.
  即使不是大多数，还是有相当多的早期美洲殖民者是作为受约束的劳动力到达的，他们要么是奴隶要么是卖身仆人。
• My husband works full time for a company he hates, who treats him like an indentured servant and pushes cheap products from foreign markets.
  我丈夫在一家他不喜欢的公司做一份全职的工作，公司将他当作签约的奴隶使唤，让他推销海外进口的便宜货。
• Share cropping and indentured servitude are finally within reach!
  分享粮食和解除奴役终于指日可待！
• On the Historical Formation of "Indentured Integrated Mechanism" and Its Functions to Public Administration
  论契约性整合机制的历史生成及其对公共行政的功能意义