1.forced by a contract to work for an employer for a fixed period of time
1.Indians were sent out to become contract laborers on Malaya's rubber plantations, or to work as indentured serv-ants in the West Indies.
印度人作为合同劳工被派遣到马来半岛的橡胶种植园,或者到西印度群岛做契约佣工。
2.And then essentially he was in debt to the gang, and was sort of an indentured servant for a while.
然后就是,他欠了黑帮的债,同时好像成了契约仆人。
3.After all, it is not as if the perpetrators of these shenanigans were indigent, let alone indentured slaves.
毕竟,这些诡计的作恶者并不贫困,更不是被契约约束的奴隶。
4.When Parker was fifteen, his parents indentured him to the American subsidiary of a Japanise plastics combine.
十五岁的时候,Parker的父母和一家日本塑料集团的美国分部签订协议将他送去做培训生。
5.Many, if not most, of the early colonists America arrived under some version of bound labor, either as a slave or an indentured servant.
即使不是大多数,还是有相当多的早期美洲殖民者是作为受约束的劳动力到达的,他们要么是奴隶要么是卖身仆人。
6.Tying this book to the last is the Ibis, a former slave ship carrying convicts and indentured workers to Mauritius.
将本书与前一本相连结的是朱鹭号,之前将罪犯和契约工人带到毛里求斯去的运奴隶的朱鹭号大船。
7.One group of indentured servants were those who voluntarily sold themselves for a four-to-seven-year term just to get their passage paid.
一种契约仆人是那些自愿自卖自身做四至七年的佣人以冲抵(到美国的)旅途费用。
8.You are not an indentured servant. lf it's not a whim for you. . . you prove it to him by your conviction and your passion.
你不是受契约束缚的奴隶那不是你的突发奇想你用你的坚信和热爱证明给他看
9.Instead of serving prison sentences, criminals would be sentenced to indentured servitude, whipped, sold into slavery, or executed.
犯罪者不是呆在监狱服刑,而是被处以契约劳役、鞭刑、卖身为奴、或处决的惩罚。
10.As the decades passed, the percentage of European immigrants arriving as indentured servants or redemptioners declined.
几十年过去了,契约仆役或自主契约仆役身份的欧洲移民的比例降低了。