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

• The land was worked on by indentured labourers.
  这土地是由契约工人耕种的。
• The majority of Chinese immigrants to Australia during the gold rush were indentured or contract labourers.
  多数中国人移民到澳大利亚，在淘金人的契约或合同的劳动者。
• 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。
• G.M.Mcsheffrey, Slavery, Indentured Servitude, Legitimate Trade and the Impact ofAbolition in the Gold.
  《再评加纳的奴隶制、契约劳役制、合法贸易及废奴运动的冲击》。
• Remember how the first Chinese came to the US-as indentured labor to work on railroads?
  记得最初的中国人是如何来到美国的吗&作为契约劳工去修铁路？
• 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。
• 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。
• It was not until one night, we were doing our clean up details ( the military saves money on janitorial services by farming out its students to indentured servitude) that I got curious.
  有一天我们在做大扫除时（队都是通过让学员做苦工来节省请勤杂工人的费用）我开始觉得好奇。
• Needy children, girls as well as boys, were indentured or apprenticed and were expected to work for their keep.
  相反，要求她们帮助丈夫从事他们的行当。在家庭内外做额外劳动的妻子们会得到社会的赞同。
• 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。