indentured
常見例句
- Some poor parents sell the children to affluent Haitians as indentured servants, or restaveks—from rester avec.
一些家境貧困的孩子被自己的父母作為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(qiáng)的抵抗力,于是在種植園中,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?!?/li>權(quán)威例句
- 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 返回 indentured