英汉词典

1.For one thing, the South could not afford to part with its slaves.

一方面，南方地区无法承担废除奴隶制带来的损失。

2.In the absence of clear goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily doings until we become slaves of them.

在缺乏明确目标的情况下，我们会奇怪地忠于执行日常的事情，直到我们成为它们的奴隶。

3.Owning slaves was " like having a large bank account, " says Wiencek, author of An Imperfect God: George washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America.

《一个不完美的上帝：乔治·华盛顿、他的奴隶和美国的诞生》一书的作者温塞克说，拥有奴隶“就像拥有一个巨额的银行账户”。

4.We are slaves of the motor car.

我们离不了汽车。

5.He hired a dentist to transplant nine teeth into his jaw—having extracted them from the mouths of his slaves.

他雇了一名牙医把从奴隶嘴里拔出来的九颗牙移植到他的下颌上。

6.In between these storm surges were steadier but similarly profound tides in which people moved out to colonize or were captured and brought in as slaves.

在这些风暴之间，这个浪潮比较稳定，但潮水的深度也差不多，在这期间，人们迁出去殖民或者被抓住带去当奴隶。

7.Northup was shipped south to New Orleans along with other slaves, where he was sold in a slave market.

诺萨普和其他奴隶一起被运到南方的新奥尔良，在那里的奴隶市场被卖掉。

8.Pity thy slaves, and comfort them with a royal kick!

可怜可怜你的奴隶吧，用陛下踢上一脚，好好安慰他们吧！