被某件事綁住
把「沒有選擇」這一點抽出來，主人換成一件事——工作、手機、流行、習慣——人還是自由的，但那件事說了算。
slave to something · noun · B2
Someone who is so strongly controlled by something that they cannot make their own choices about it.
被…控制的人／…的奴隸
核心畫面
Picture a person whose time and body are not their own: someone else owns them, decides what they do, and pays them nothing. That total loss of choice is the centre of the word, and it is what the later, lighter uses borrow from.
可以想成：一個人的時間和身體都不屬於自己——有另一個人擁有他、決定他做什麼、而且不給工錢。這種「完全沒有選擇」的狀態…更多收起
可以想成：一個人的時間和身體都不屬於自己——有另一個人擁有他、決定他做什麼、而且不給工錢。這種「完全沒有選擇」的狀態是這個字的中心；後來比較輕鬆的比喻用法，借的都是這股沒有選擇的感覺。字面的意思牽涉真實的歷史，比喻用法在英文裡雖然常見，語氣輕得多。From the picture
Also in this word
enslaved person · noun · B2
A person who is owned by someone else and is forced to work for them for no money.
奴隸
原始詞典資料14 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Slavename
- 1
Synonym of Sclavia.
slavenoun/sleɪv/
- 1
A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.
- Fear of their cargo bred a savage cruelty into the crew. One captain, to strike terror into the rest, killed a slave and dividing heart, liver and entrails into 300 pieces made each of the slaves eat one, threatening those who refused with the same torture. Such incidents were not rare.
- 2
A drudge; one who labors or is obliged (e.g. by prior contract) to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant.
- 3
An abject person.
- Art thou the ſlaue that with thy breath haſt kill'd / Mine innocent child?
- 4
One who has no power of resistance to something, one who surrenders to or is under the domination of something.
- a slave to passion, to strong drink, or to ambition
- Slave to the rhythm! / Keep it up, keep it up! / Never stop! Never stop!
- 5
BDSMlifestylesexualityA submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who consensually submits to, sexually or personally, serving one or more masters or mistresses.
- In the clip the black female “slave” dons a chain around her neck for which her white mistress possesses the key. The black woman sub is further disciplined by the power of speech—the force of silence.
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A sex slave, a person who is forced against their will to perform, for another person or group, sexual acts on a regular or continuing basis.
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artscomputingengineeringA device (such as a secondary flash or hard drive) that is subject to the control of another (a master).
- If you administer your own reverse DNS zones, remember to include them in your slave configuration.
slaveverb/sleɪv/
- 1
To work as a slaver, to enslave people.
- MASSINISSA: Wilt thou be slaved? SOPHONISBA: No, free
- The truth is from the Zambesi to Lake Nyasa on the north and east banks of the river, there is nothing but slaving — Africans selling each other . . .
- 2
To work hard.
- I was slaving all day over a hot stove.
- 3
To place a device under the control of another.
- to slave a hard disk
- Slaving one digital audio device to another unit using timecode alone results in time-based synchronisation[…]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。