公元1066年诺曼征服英格兰之后,英格兰人沦为了下层阶级(lower class)。法语成了上层社会(higher class)的语言,古英语也受到了冷落,甚至可以说是蔑视。
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1737年就开始使用的higher class(上层社会)一词,可想而知就是lower class(下层社会)的反义词。有意思的是,后者竟然比前者出现的时间早100年。
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lower class limit 组下限 ; 下组限
The Lower Class 下层阶级
In Lower Class Districts 在低等阶级地区
lower class economic status 下层经济状况
同义词: underclass
同义词: lower-class low-class
以上来源于: WordNet
N-COUNT-COLL Some people use the lower class or the lower classes to refer to the division of society that they consider to have the lowest social status. 下层社会 [usu pl]
Education now offers the lower classes access to job opportunities.
现在的教育为下层社会提供了工作机会。
ADJ Lower class is also an adjective. 下层社会的
...lower-class families.
...下层社会的家庭。
The new bosses were condemned as 'too lower class'.
这些新头头被指责为“层次太低”。
In terms of class, digital divide exists among different types of workers and between the upper and middle classes and the lower class.
在阶级方面,不同类型的工作者,以及中上层阶级和下层阶级之间,都存在着数字鸿沟。
States had at least three social levels, usually, an upper class of rulers, a middleclass comprised of managers and merchants, and a lower class of crop producers and agricultural laborers.
国家中至少有三种社会阶层,上层阶级(执政),中产阶级(商人,管理者)和下层阶级(农民,工人)。
Now he didn't really care about the lower class people so much.
他其实并不在乎下层阶级。
Martha Nussbaum The philosopher and legal scholar Martha Nussbaum nicely summarizes this: "Thus, throughout history certain disgust properties have repeatedly and monotonously been associated with Jews, women, homosexuals, untouchables, lower class people.
哲学家和法律学者,很好地总结了这一点:,”因此,历史上某些令人反感的属性,便一次又一次地被套在,犹太人,女人,同性恋者,贱民,低阶层者的身上。
This is a sign of my economic status: I don't have to work. It is middle and lower-class women who do not get to observe purdah in this way.
但这恰好是我经济地位的标志:,我不需要工作,只有中下阶层的女人,才像这样不遵守深闺的习俗。
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