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.
雙語例句
1. women's liberation from the bondage of domestic life
女性從家庭生活束縛中的解脫
來自《權威詞典》
2. He is in bondage to his ambition.
他被他的野心所支配.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
3. All people, she said, lived their lives in bondage to hunger, pain and lust.
她說，所有人的生活都受縛于饑餓、苦痛和欲望。
來自柯林斯例句
4. They aim to deliver the people who are in bondage to superstitious belief.
他們的目的在于解脫那些受迷信束縛的人.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. The Party claimed, of course, to have liberated the proles from bondage.