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

• 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。
• On the Historical Formation of "Indentured Integrated Mechanism" and Its Functions to Public Administration
  论契约性整合机制的历史生成及其对公共行政的功能意义
• Share cropping and indentured servitude are finally within reach!
  分享粮食和解除奴役终于指日可待！
• The land was worked on by indentured labourers.
  这土地是由契约工人耕种的。
• It excludes masters, pilots, cadets and pupils on training ships and duly indentured apprentices, naval ratings, and other persons in the permanent service of a Government;
  但船长、引航员、培训船上的学生、订有适当契约的学徒、海军人员以及担任政府永久职务的其他人员，均予除外。
• 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》。
• There shall not be any use of forced labor, whether in the form of prison labor, indentured labor, bonded labor or otherwise.
  产品生产过程中不应存在任何形式的强迫劳动，包括监狱劳动、契约用工、抵押劳动等。
• 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。
• Chinese scholars began the study on indentured Chinese labor in Latin America in the1960s.
  中国学者对拉美华侨的研究始于1960年代。
• Mr. Biswas is a typical cultural marginal man. His forefathers, as the indentured labors, move from India to Trinidad, the colony of Britain. Born in Trinidad, Biswas receives the Indian traditional culture and the western culture.
  主人公毕司沃斯先生是文化边缘人的典型代表，他的祖先作为劳工从印度移民到特立尼达这个英国的殖民地，出生于特立尼达的他受到了印度传统文化和西方文化的双重影响。