indenture
英 [ɪnˈdentʃə(r)]
美 [ɪnˈdentʃər]
n. (旧时的)师徒契约
v. 使签约为学徒（或劳工
复数：indentures 过去式：indentured 过去分词：indentured 第三人称单数：indentures 现在分词：indenturing
BNC.26877 / COCA.32727
牛津词典
noun
- （旧时的）师徒契约
a type of contract in the past that forced a servant or apprentice to work for their employer for a particular period of time
英英释义
noun
- the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line
- a contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified term
- formal agreement between the issuer of bonds and the bondholders as to terms of the debt
- a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline)
verb
- bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant
- an indentured servant
双语例句
- She had to sign an indenture to sell herself, because she owed money to the landlord.
由于欠地主家的钱，她不得已签了卖身契。 - The functional calculus is introduced to determine the optimal conversion rate so as to optimize the issuance strategy of convertible bond, thus offering a new way for the design of original indenture for convertible bond.
运用泛函变分原理，求出最优转换速率，并且进一步得到可转换债券的最优发行策略，为可转换债券发行条件的设计提供了一种新的方法。 - Second, the indenture system was advanced;
契约制发达； - Each of us when separated, having one side only, like a flat fish, is but the indenture of a man, and he is always looking for his other half.
我们每一个人被分开时就只有一片，就像一条比目鱼，只是人的一个符片，所以人总在寻找着自己的另一半。 - By use of indentation cracks, determine the crack length that will result in strength decreased, at the same time, analysis the relationship of indenture load and crack length and depth.
在玻璃表面引入不同尺寸的裂纹，比较压头荷载与裂纹长度和深度的关系，分析引起强度破坏性衰减的裂纹尺寸。 - The foreign oil-gas tax-fee is made up of rental model and indenture system, and the article comparatively analyzes the two modes and the tax of typical countries.
国外油气税费模式可以划分为租让制与合同制两种，并就两种模式特征及典型国家的税费制度进行比较分析。 - The indenture contract was device that enabled people to pay for their passage to America by selling their labor to someone in the New World for a specified period of time.
契约是使人们以向新大陆的某个雇主在一段时间里出卖劳动力的方式来支付其赴美旅费的手段。 - The Spirit of Adventure is something to indenture.
冒险精神就是契约。 - They led the private army established by the military indenture to kill each other and eventually led to the war of Roses.
他们纷纷率领自己由军事合同制建立的私人军队互相混战杀戮，最终酿成红白玫瑰战争。 - As for the future, each of them should enter into an indenture with the accounting standards board, promising strict observance of professional standards.
至于以后，它们每个都应该与会计标准委员会签订合同，保证严格遵守职业标准。