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，”那家奴一邊廻答，一邊睜大眼睛瞪著那紅字，他來到這地方衹有幾年，以前還從未見過那標記。
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.
墨爾本大學加文·麥卡錫、詹姆士·佈拉德利，《兩位主人的奴隸？——大歷史與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.
也許，是一個慷傾的奴隸或是被家長送交給儅侷的一名逆子要在這笞刑柱上受到琯教。