thrall
发音
英 [θrɔ:l]
美 [θrɔl]
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- n.
- <文>奴隶
- 奴役
- 奴隶制
- 奴隶般受支配的人
单词词源
thrall 奴役，奴仆
来自古英语 thrael,奴仆，来自 Proto-Germanic*thragilaz,跑腿者，来自 PIE*tragh,拉，拖，跑， 词源同 track,tractor.引申词义奴役，役使。
双语例句
- 1. Even the government seems to be in their thrall .
- 即使政府束也似乎受其束缚。
- 2. For the past two years most policy makers in europe and many politicians and pundits in america have been in thrall to a destructive economic doctrine .
- 过去两年来，欧洲的大部分决策者和许多美国政客及学者一直受到一种破坏性经济教条的奴役。
- 3. He is clearly in thrall to the technology and keen to demonstrate its wonders .
- 他显然被技术所束缚，却又热切地向公众展示着它所带来的奇迹。
- 4. Today the long-dead economist is keynes , and it is professors of economics , not practical men , who are in thrall to his ideas .
- 目前，这位早已过世的经济学家就是凯恩斯，而受其观点束缚的并非实干家，而是经济学教授。
- 5. He laments that these leaders are still in thrall to financial markets and international business , and he is appalled by what he sees as a collective instinct to try to repair a failing system rather than change it .
- 他悲叹这些领导人仍受到金融市场和国际商业的束缚，并觉得试图修复一个失败的体系而非改变这个体系让他震惊不已。