c. 1300, "condition of a serf or slave," from Anglo-Latin bondagium, from Middle English bond "a serf, tenant farmer," from Old English bonda "householder," from Old Norse boandi "free-born farmer," noun use of present participle of boa "dwell, prepare, inhabit," from PIE *bhow-, from root *bheue- "to be, exist, dwell" (see be). Meaning in English changed by influence of bond. The sexual sado-masochism sense is recorded by 1966.
实用例句
1. women's liberation from the bondage of domestic life
女性从家庭生活束缚中的解脱
来自《权威词典》
2. He is in bondage to his ambition.
他被他的野心所支配.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
3. All people, she said, lived their lives in bondage to hunger, pain and lust.
她说，所有人的生活都受缚于饥饿、苦痛和欲望。
来自柯林斯例句
4. They aim to deliver the people who are in bondage to superstitious belief.
他们的目的在于解脱那些受迷信束缚的人.
来自《简明英汉词典》
5. The Party claimed, of course, to have liberated the proles from bondage.
