bond·age /ˈbɑndɪʤ/
 奴役,束縛


 Bond·age n.
 1. The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity.
 The King, when he designed you for my guard,
 Resolved he would not make my bondage hard.   --Dryden.
 2. Obligation; tie of duty.
    He must resolve by no means to be . . . brought under the bondage of observing oaths.   --South.
 3. Old Eng. Law Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.
 Syn: -- Thralldom; bond service; imprisonment.

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 bondage
      n 1: the state of being under the control of another person [syn:
            slavery, thrall, thralldom, thraldom]
      2: sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by
         cords or handcuffs) one of the partners


 Bondage
    of Israel in Egypt (Ex. 2:23, 25; 5), which is called the "house
    of bondage" (13:3; 20:2). This word is used also with reference
    to the captivity in Babylon (Isa. 14:3), and the oppression of
    the Persian king (Ezra 9:8, 9).