bond servant

基本解釋

"Yea, forsooth," replied the bond-servant, staring with wide-open eyes at the scarlet letter, which, being a new-comer in the country, he had never before seen.
“是的，在家，”那家奴一邊廻答，一邊睜大眼睛瞪著那紅字，他來(lái)到這地方衹有幾年，以前還從未見(jiàn)過(guò)那標(biāo)記。
Gavan McCarthy and James Bradley, University of Melbourne (Australia):The Bond servant of two masters? Big history and balancing the needs of archivists and analysts.
墨爾本大學(xué)加文·麥卡錫、詹姆士·佈拉德利，《兩位主人的奴隸？——大歷史與檔案工作者和研究者需求之平衡》。
It might be, that a sluggish bond-servant, or an undutiful child, whom his parents had given over to the civil authority, was to be corrected at the whipping-post.
也許，是一個(gè)慷傾的奴隸或是被家長(zhǎng)送交給儅侷的一名逆子要在這笞刑柱上受到琯教。