indentured

基本解释

Some poor parents sell the children to affluent Haitians as indentured servants, or restaveks—from rester avec.
一些家境貧睏的孩子被自己的父母作爲契約傭工賣給海地的富人。
West Africans were thought to have a greater resistance to the heat and the tropical diseases so slaves began to replace indentured white labour in the plantations.
一般來說，西非人更耐得住炎熱的氣候，對熱帶疾病有很強的觝抗力，於是在種植園中，奴隸漸漸取代簽約的白人勞動力。
Even the most patriotic humans can't compare: “It'd be like having an American flag tattooed to you at birth,” he says. “They are permanently indentured to their society.
即使最具愛國精神的人類也無法與之相比：“這就像一出生就在身上紋上個美國國旗，”他說道，“它們與它們所在的社會簽訂了終身契約。”

But in those numbers most are average and indentured by the way Green Cards are obtained.
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Indentured labour was abolished in 1920, after which many Indian migrants moved into the towns.
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In the past, an indentured servant was one who was forced to work for someone for a period of time, because of an agreement made by people in authority or to settle a debt.