taskable
词形变化
释义与例句
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On a plantation exploiting an enslaved labour force, a person considered to be capable of performing labour, especially field labour.
美国 历史 废旧1937, Guion Griffis Johnson, Ante-Bellum North Carolina, Chapel Hill, p. 83, cited in Melville Herskovits, The Myth of the Negro Past, Boston: Harper, 1941, Chapter 5, p. 128, The very young and the old were usually engaged in the house, while the full “taskables” were more profitably employed in the field.
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To which tasks can be assigned.
工程a taskable intelligent agent; a taskable sensor
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(of an enslaved person held on a plantation) Considered to be capable of performing labour, especially field labour.
美国 历史 废旧1789, record of sale of enslaved people by Thomas Washington, cited in Philip D. Morgan, Slave Counterpoint, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998, Part 1, Chapter 3, p. 198, footnote 85, [The 16-year-old boy has] been taskable these 3 years past.
1796, court record, Neufville v. Mitchell, 1 Desaussure 480, South Carolina, cited in Helen Tunnicliff Catterall (ed.), Judicial Cases concerning American Slavery and the Negro, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1929, pp. 277-278, defendant […] states […] many of them were diseased and not taskable;
1813, Bahama Gazette, 19 December, 1813, cited in Howard Johnson, The Bahamas from Slavery to Servitude, 1783-1933, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, p. 29, to oblige Planters to plant a certain quantity of Provisions to each taskable Negro
词源
From task + -able.
来源：wiktionary