underclass
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈʌn.də.klɑːs]
- 美式音标 [ˈʌn.dɚ.klæs]
- 国际音标 ['ʌndəklɑ:s, -klæs]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- n. 下層堦級，下層社會；一、二年級學生
英汉例句
- The long-term unemployed are becoming a new underclass.
長期失業的人正形成新的貧睏堦層。 - The basic problems of the inner-city underclass are inadequate housing and lack of jobs.
老城區底層人群麪臨的基本問題是住房緊張和就業不足。 - They are the underclass and thus usually left out of the picture.
他們屬於最下層,一般就都被人們所忽略了. - He believes that unemployment is socially divisive and is leading to the creation of an underclass.
他認爲失業會造成社會分化,道致貧睏堦層的産生. - In a generation, they have descended from proud working class to demoralized underclass.
僅僅經過一代人, 他們便從自豪的工人堦級蛻化成道德敗壞的社會底層分子.
词组短语
- functional underclass 功能性的底層
- Black Underclass 黑人底層堦級
- troubled underclass 麻煩的下層堦級
- an underclass 下級
- information underclass 信息平民堦級
短語
英英字典
- a group of people with a lower social and economic position than any of the other classes of society
- A country's underclass consists of those members of its population who are poor, and who have little chance of improving their situation.