奴隶 | nú lì | slave | |
匈奴 | xiōng nú | Xiongnu, a people of the Eastern Steppe who created an empire that flourished around the time of the Qin and Han dynasties | |
奴婢 | nú bì | slave servant | |
奴隶主 | nú lì zhǔ | slave owner | |
农奴 | nóng nú | serf |
1 | Why expect flunkies to do their jobs just because you pay them? | |
2 | "Yea, forsooth," replied the bond-servant, staring with wide-open eyes at the scarlet letter, which, being a new-comer in the country, he had never before seen. | |
3 | The word for slave (Nu) has also been given a new modern usage, one that has long been in use in spoken Chinese. | |
4 | By around 9600BC the island had conquered much of Western Europe and Africa and enslaved its enemies. | |
5 | Aristotle, before any of them, had said that men are by no means equal naturally, but that some are born for slavery, and others for dominion. |