| 词汇 | be a slave to/of something |
| 释义 | be a slave to/of somethingbe a slave to/of something EFFECT/INFLUENCEto be so strongly influenced by something that you cannot make your own decisions – used to show disapproval 成为某事物的奴隶，完全受某物的控制〔含贬义〕 a slave to fashion 时尚的奴隶 Examples from the Corpus be a slave to/of something• Gone are the days when those with the will to be chic had to be slaves of fashion.• This happened a mere seven or eight times a day and Jack was a slave to her whims.• We need not be slaves to our technologies.• He would not be a slave to wealth.• But most overseas buyers of the clothes are not sports fans - they are slaves to the fashion for Americana.• They are slaves to the prejudices of the epoch in which they were written.• You don't need to be a slave to fashion.• They both show how we are slaves of the car. → be a slave to/of something at slave1(1) |
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