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slave
HSK 7-9
social status / price of a slave / price of a person (a sportsman etc) / worth / value (of stocks, valuables etc)
HSK 7-9
Aesop (trad. 620-560 BC), Greek slave and storyteller, supposed author of Aesop's fables
(of a slave or servant) to be given one's freedom / (of a prostitute) to marry and leave one's trade
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *奴* | 奴* | *奴
slave
slave / fig. flunkey
to work tirelessly; to give one's all; to slave away / to throw away one's life; to sacrifice oneself (usu. for an unworthy cause)
(literary) I, your servant (self-appellation of a lower-rank female) / (archaic) male and female slaves / subjects (of a ruler)
master-slave (computing) / client-server (computing) / primary and secondary
barbarian / slave servant / (old) contemptuous term for people from southern China (used by northern Chinese people)
slave-owning society (precedes feudal society 封建社會|封建社会 in Marxist theory)
slave of a foreign conqueror
to rub one's head and heels (idiom); to slave for the benefit of others / to wear oneself out for the general good
baby / small child / (arch.) slave among ethnic minorities
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *虜* | 虜* | *虜
prisoner of war / to capture / to take prisoner / (old) northern barbarian / slave
slave owner
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *婢* | 婢* | *婢
slave girl / maid servant
(historical) chignon worn by a young girl / slave girl (prepubescent household courtesan wearing a distinctive paired chignon hairstyle)
domestic slave / slave servant
-driven (of mechanism, driven by a component) / slave (wheel, pulley)
"a slave to one's children", hard-working parents who would do everything to ensure their children's well-being, in disregard of their own needs
a slave to one's credit card / sb who is unable to repay their credit card borrowings
slave servant
agricultural slave / serf
slave labor / slave worker
not a slave to the bottle / able to enjoy alcohol in moderation / able to hold one's drink
botnet / zombie network / slave network (used by spammers)
slave girl / servant girl
a slave to one's mortgage
floating hell / slave ships
to work like a horse and toil like an ox / fig. to slave for sb
white slave / (neologism that peaked in the 2000s–2010s) white-collar slave (office worker who is overworked and exploited)
slave
"a slave to certificates", sb who does one's utmost to obtain as many certificates as possible so to be more employable
car slave, sb forced to sacrifice quality of life to buy or maintain a car
lit. black brick kiln / factories that acquired notoriety in 2007 for slave labor


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