indentures
基本解釋
- n.契約；合同；鋸齒狀的邊緣；凹的部分
- （復(fù)數(shù)）indentures:師徒契約； 定期服務(wù)合同.
- vt.以契約束縛
英漢例句
- Soon thereafter, private agents scoured the ports taverns, and countryside to sign on workers for indenture.
此后不久，私人機(jī)構(gòu)迅速搜查港口的小客棧和鄉(xiāng)下地區(qū)，來招募契約仆役。 - The indenture contract was a device that enabled people to pay for their passage to America by selling their labor to someone in the New World for a specified period of time.
契約是使人們以向新大陸的某個(gè)雇主在一段時(shí)間里出賣勞動(dòng)力的方式來支付其赴美旅費(fèi)的手段。