bondage

UK:  ['bɒndɪdʒ]

US:  ['bɑndɪdʒ]

n.

1.束缚;监禁;屈从

2.奴隶处境,奴役,劳役

3.(英国古代的)农奴租地法

4.负担,受罪

1 . She was born in bondage and with a dark skin and most of her early maturity was passed in a dark and tragic time for the land of her birth.
她一生下来，就被烙上了奴隶和黑人的印记，由于出生地的缘故，她幼年大部分时间都是在黑暗与悲惨的日子里成熟长大的。

2 . But this man of the cloth would not abridge sermons calling on his abstemious parishioners to also abrogate human bondage.
但是，这位牧师不会缩短他的布道，它是用来号召他的有节制的教区居民放弃人类的枷锁的啊。

3 . Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind.
同其他任何人一样，一出世，你就是奴隶，出世就是进监狱，不能去嗅、去尝、去触摸，当一辈子囚犯，一个头脑遭禁锢的囚犯。

4 . Thy heart be lifted up, and thou remember not the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
你要小心，不要心高气傲，以致忘记了由埃及地，由为奴之家，领你出来的上主你的天主。

5 . which cause his bondage to existence, such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.
他没有那些导致执着生存的欲念，这样的比丘抛弃此岸与彼岸，犹如蛇蜕去了衰老的皮。