In the past, the majority of women were consigned to a lifetime of servitude and poverty.过去，大多数的女性一生含辛茹苦，一贫如洗。They spent their lives in servitude.他们一辈子过著被奴役的生活。The essay exhorts women to cast off their servitude to husbands and priests.该文劝告女性不要再对丈夫和牧师低三下四。