class /klɑːs/ CET4 TEM4 ( classing, classed, classes )

• 1. 

  N-COUNT A class is a group of students who are taught together. 班

  例：

  He had to spend about six months in a class with younger students.

  他不得不在一个比他小的学生的班上呆了大约六个月。

• 2. 

  N-COUNT A class is a course of teaching in a particular subject. 课程

  例：

  He acquired a law degree by taking classes at night.

  他通过上晚上的课获得了法律学位。

• 3. 

  N-COUNT A class of things is a group of them with similar characteristics. 种类

  例：

  Harbour staff noticed that measurements given for the same class of boats often varied.

  港口员工们注意到对同一类小船所给出的尺寸经常不同。

• 4. 

  N-UNCOUNT If you do something in class, you do it during a lesson in school. 课

  例：

  There is lots of reading in class.

  课上有大量阅读。

• 5. 

  N-UNCOUNT If you say that someone or something has class, you mean that they are elegant and sophisticated. 品位 [非正式]

  例：

  The most elegant woman I've ever met – she had class in every sense of the word.

  我曾见过的最高雅的女人–从各种意义上讲她都有品位。

• 6. 

  N-SING The students in a school or college who finish their course in a particular year are often referred to as the class of that year. 同届学生

  例：

  These two members of Yale's Class of '57 never miss a reunion.

  这两位耶鲁57届的同学从未错过一次重聚联欢会。

• 7. 

  N-VAR Class refers to the division of people in a society into groups according to their social status. 阶级

  例：

  ...the relationship between social classes.

  …社会阶级间的关系。

  例：

  What it will do is create a whole new ruling class.

  它要做的就是创造一个全新的统治阶级。

• 8. 

  → see also middle class, upper class, working class

• 9. 

  V-T If someone or something is classed as a particular thing, they are regarded as belonging to that group of things. 把…归类为

  例：

  Since they can and do successfully inter-breed, they cannot be classed as different species.

  既然它们能够而且确实可以成功杂交繁殖，它们就不能被归为不同的物种。

  例：

  I class myself as an ordinary working person.

  我把自己归类为一名普通的劳动者。

• 10. 

  → see also business class, first-class, second-class, world-class