bondage

1. N-UNCOUNT Bondage is the condition of being someone's property and having to work for them. 奴役

Masters sometimes allowed their slaves to buy their way out of bondage. 主人们有时候允许奴隶赎身。

2. N-UNCOUNT Bondage is the condition of not being free because you are strongly influenced by something or someone. 束缚[正式]

All people, she said, lived their lives in bondage to hunger, pain and lust. 她说所有人都生活在饥饿、痛苦和欲望的束缚之中。