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

• Typically, an indentured immigrant signed with a shipowner or a recruiting agent in england.
  契约移民通常与船长或英国的招募人签订合同。
• 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。
• 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。
• My husband works full time for a company he hates, who treats him like an indentured servant and pushes cheap products from foreign markets.
  我丈夫在一家他不喜欢的公司做一份全职的工作，公司将他当作签约的奴隶使唤，让他推销海外进口的便宜货。
• 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。
• 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。
• Daniel arrived in Maryland as an indentured servant.
  丹尼尔作为契约佣工来到马里兰州。
• 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。