Tra từ slave - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
slave driver
slave labour
▪ Cotton was grown using slave labor.
slave labour
the drugs/slave trade
▪ the country’s thriving drugs trade
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
black
▪ A pair of giant black slaves pounded drums.
▪ Some say they included his black slave Sally Hemings and that she bore him four illegal offspring.
▪ He wondered what she'd do if she ever met a Chinaman or a black slave.
▪ The constitution they adopted was similar to the United States Constitution; however, property in black slaves was expressly recognized.
▪ Patsy, looking like the faithful old black mammy slave in a film except that she was white and she was only twenty-five.
▪ Although the mulattoes had more rights than the black slaves, they were still subject to a series of restrictive laws.
▪ There was no niche or corner of safety for the free black in a slave society.
fugitive
▪ Some opposition arose over the proposal to make the governor of the state responsible for insuring the return of fugitive slaves.
▪ As an additional consequence, fugitive slaves would be free as soon as they crossed the southern boundary of the North.
▪ Policy was inconsistent in Missouri and Kentucky; some commanders permitted fugitive slaves to remain within their lines and others excluded them.
▪ The fugitive slave problem on the southeastern frontier dated back to the colonial period.
▪ The pro-slavery compromise of the Constitution which required the rendition of fugitive slaves was abrogated.
NOUN
girl
▪ But she wasn't Jake's little slave girl any more.
▪ At the end, the uncle finds out that the young slave girl is Lisa.
▪ These works can be partly seen as a continuation of the nineteenth-century tradition of exotic genre such as depictions of slave girls.
▪ She kept four slave girls by her; no one else.
▪ What it was like was being anointed by some slave girl.
▪ As she did, she saw the young slave girl on the auction block.
▪ She wasn't his little slave girl any longer.
▪ Something about the slave girl fascinated Heather as she took in the pink silk dress hugging the curves of her body.
market
▪ Before they entered the slave market or inspected a slave, many slaveholders had well-developed ideas about what they would find there.
▪ They were passing the crowded slave market.
owner
▪ In 1757 Woolman made a second journey into the South, where he found slave owners tense and even hostile to him.
▪ But the soldiers were used by the slave owners to protect their wealth.
▪ Earlier, slave owners had at least minimal responsibility for slaves as property.
▪ This was the first slave she had ever purchased, making her a firsthand slave owner.
▪ A religious group that could effectively weed out offensive people, the Friends found slave owners sufficiently inoffensive.
population
▪ Some historians have estimated a slave population in eighth-century Sussex of almost twenty thousand.
▪ Left to their own devices, the Confederates dealt poorly with the management problem of their enormous hostile slave population.
▪ This produced a certain cultural and behavioural differentiation in the slave population, among whom language differences must have been highly significant.
▪ In New Orleans in May 1861, disturbances among the slave population were suppressed by the militia.
revolt
▪ However, no significant slave revolt took place in the Confederacy as the war progressed.
▪ Some Union commanders even continued to uphold the antebellum policy of protecting resident slaveholders from slave revolts.
▪ With its ability to sound the call of slave revolt across the miles, it was simply too dangerous to exist.
▪ Not many years after these freed men invented their church organization, desperate militants inspired slave revolts.
▪ Even the accounts of the slave revolt are woven skillfully into the novel.
ship
▪ A government minister said there had been a mixup, and that another unidentified vessel was the slave ship.
▪ Woolman was on the examining team that went to the Rhode Island port to see the slave ships at close hand.
▪ The plan of a slave ship issued by Clarkson was also extensively taken up and became an antislavery print.
▪ It made me start thinking what it was like on the slave ship.
trade
▪ These areas need developing, so entrepreneurs pump in investment: capital accumulated from the slave trade, sugar and cotton.
▪ At the very least, he decided that he personally could shun anything that had to do with slave trade.
▪ But we do need the slave trade if we're not to go under.
▪ The society boasts that it has become the most successful single-issue pressure group since William Wilberforce and opposition to the slave trade.
▪ Equally parliamentarians spoke of cruelty, inhumanity and tyranny as features of the slave trade and slavery, often providing vivid examples.
▪ Slavery and the slave trade, however, denied self-love to the slave, provoking permanent discontent and possible rebellion.
VERB
become
▪ Thus, a person who becomes a slave loses this opportunity.
▪ And by the time I was ten, I had become her slave.
▪ Do not become slaves of men.
▪ He opened his window and hollered down into the courtyard for the scraggy Monkey-boy who had become his slave.
▪ As a consequence, those figures became inspirational to other slaves who attempted to emulate them: the Richmond-Molyneux effect.
▪ There's too much hype connected to most beauty products so I've never become a slave to any particular shampoo.
▪ Christabel does not achieve enlightenment through this union because she becomes a slave to Geraldine, instead of her equal.
bring
▪ The defeated were either beheaded or brought back as slaves and their property seized by their captor.
buy
▪ As they talked about and wrote about buying slaves, slaveholders mapped a world made of slavery.
free
▪ Second, to free a slave.
▪ How do we get back the passion that poor immigrant children and newly freed slaves once had for education?
▪ When the freed slaves landed, they enthusiastically started replicating the lifestyle of their erstwhile masters.
▪ Months later, Heather freed the slaves and sold the plantation.
▪ They freed the slaves and got rid of dictators.
▪ Hopkins was among the first to say that awakening could not truly take over a heart until its owner freed slaves.
▪ The act freed for ever slaves used by rebels to aid or abet the insurrection of the states.
keep
▪ Thomas Jefferson became the third president in 1801 despite published accusations of his seducing two married women and keeping a slave mistress.
▪ Roman nobles kept hundreds of slaves.
▪ He kept his servants and slaves under such loose supervision that the city fathers complained.
▪ She kept four slave girls by her; no one else.
sell
▪ The majority of the survivors were sold as slaves.
▪ At first, I did not want to sell Xury as a slave, after all our dangerous adventures together.
▪ Sometimes the Moors sell prisoners in the slave markets.
treat
▪ They want to treat all Arabs as slaves and second-class citizens.
▪ She was treated like a slave by her husband who she was forced to marry.
▪ The servants are treated like slaves.
work
▪ Nigel's father has worked like a slave to create a modern environment for his family.
▪ Born free in South Carolina in 1834, Turner refused to work alongside slaves, so he found work as a janitor.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Because slaves can have their interests counted equitably and still remain in bondage.
▪ But trade in slaves has been a universal phenomenon, affecting all primitive societies.
▪ Many intransigent southerners never yielded the notion that the war itself was of no importance if the slave system was not maintained.
▪ Seder participants recline on pillows, for example, because they had no such luxury as slaves, the children said.
▪ The slaves rose and backed out of the chamber, their eyes cast down.
▪ There was a female slave working outside, but when Burun rode up she did not even raise her head.
▪ These areas need developing, so entrepreneurs pump in investment: capital accumulated from the slave trade, sugar and cotton.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
away
▪ Because I like you, Breeze, and it makes my blood boil to think of you slaving away as you do.
▪ You must cease this nonsensical life of yours, slaving away as if you were a servant!
▪ She spends the next ten years taking in washing, slaving away to pay back the money they borrowed to replace it.
▪ Because you're slaving away in that little office all day doing stupid, piddling little jobs for me!
▪ Not much, is it, for a lifetime slaving away?
over
▪ But after slaving over something for ten years, it is rather nice to show it off a bit.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Because I like you, Breeze, and it makes my blood boil to think of you slaving away as you do.
▪ Plus it has an effects loop, and a preamp out for slaving up to other power amps, and so on.
▪ She spends the next ten years taking in washing, slaving away to pay back the money they borrowed to replace it.
▪ You must cease this nonsensical life of yours, slaving away as if you were a servant!

slave

I. slave¹ /sleɪv/ noun [COUNTABLE]
[date : 1200-1300; Language : Old French; Origin : esclave, from Medieval Latin sclavus, from Sclavus ( ⇨ Slavic); because in the early Middle Ages many Slavic people in central Europe were slaves]
1. someone who is owned by another person and works for them for no money
the slave trade (=the buying and selling of slaves, especially Africans who were taken to America)

2. be a slave to/of something
to be so strongly influenced by something that you cannot make your own decisions – used to show disapproval:
　 ▪ a slave to fashion

II. slave² verb [INTRANSITIVE ALWAYS + ADVERB/PREPOSITION]
to work very hard with little time to rest
slave away (at something)
　 ▪ I’ve been slaving away at this report.
slave over
　 ▪ He’s been slaving over his history essay.
slave (away) over a hot stove (=cook – used humorously)