indentured
常见例句
- Some poor parents sell the children to affluent Haitians as indentured servants, or restaveks—from rester avec.
一些家境贫困的孩子被自己的父母作为契约佣工卖给海地的富人。 - West Africans were thought to have a greater resistance to the heat and the tropical diseases so slaves began to replace indentured white labour in the plantations.
一般来说,西非人更耐得住炎热的气候,对热带疾病有很强的抵抗力,于是在种植园中,奴隶渐渐取代签约的白人劳动力。 - Even the most patriotic humans can't compare: “It'd be like having an American flag tattooed to you at birth,” he says. “They are permanently indentured to their society.
即使最具爱国精神的人类也无法与之相比:“这就像一出生就在身上纹上个美国国旗,”他说道,“它们与它们所在的社会签订了终身契约。” - But in those numbers most are average and indentured by the way Green Cards are obtained.
FORBES: Rethinking the Concept of "Outliers": Why Non-Experts are Better at Disruptive Innovation - Indentured labour was abolished in 1920, after which many Indian migrants moved into the towns.
ECONOMIST: Fiji - Peruvian kidnappers mounted labour raids, spiriting the islanders away to lives of indentured servitude in South America.
ECONOMIST: Easter Island 返回 indentured