serfs

英 [sɜːfs]

美 [sɜrfs]

n. (旧时的)农奴
serf的复数

柯林斯词典

(旧时的)农奴
In former times,serfswere a class of people who had to work on a particular person's land and could not leave without that person's permission.

Having smashed the yoke of the feudal serfdom, the broad masses of serfs and slaves obtained political and national equal rights.
广大农奴和奴隶砸碎了封建农奴制的枷锁后，获得了政治平等权利和民族平等权利。
What a stinker, he wanted to make us into serfs.
一个臭鬼，把我们说成是农奴。
The nobles had oppressed and exploited their serfs.
贵族压迫剥削农奴。
Education was denied to the masses of serfs and slaves.
广大农奴和奴隶被剥夺了受教育的权利。
Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.
美国人虽然愿意、甚至渴望去当农奴，可是一向是坚决不肯当乡下佬的。
The masses of serfs and slaves had no right to receive education.
广大农奴和奴隶没有接受教育的权利。
It was an age which witnessed the Taiping and Moslem rebellions in China, the Meji Restoration in Japan and Civil War in the United States and the freeing of the Russian serfs.
中国的太平天国运动和回族起义、日本的明治维新、美国的南北战争和俄国农奴的解放，也都发生在这个时期。
From the serfs of the Middle Ages sprang the Chartered burghers of the earliest towns.
从中世纪的农奴中产生了初期城市的城关市民；
At the bottom of the feudal scale were the villeins or serfs.
在封建等级底层的是农奴。
They were the forerunners of the medieval serfs.
他们是中世纪农奴的前辈。