bond servant

基本解释

"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.
“是的，在家，”那家奴一边回答，一边睁大眼睛瞪着那红字，他来到这地方只有几年，以前还从未见过那标记。
Gavan McCarthy and James Bradley, University of Melbourne (Australia):The Bond servant of two masters? Big history and balancing the needs of archivists and analysts.
墨尔本大学加文·麦卡锡、詹姆士·布拉德利，《两位主人的奴隶？——大历史与档案工作者和研究者需求之平衡》。
It might be, that a sluggish bond-servant, or an undutiful child, whom his parents had given over to the civil authority, was to be corrected at the whipping-post.
也许，是一个慷倾的奴隶或是被家长送交给当局的一名逆子要在这笞刑柱上受到管教。