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. 下层阶级，下层社会；一、二年级学生
英汉例句
- The long-term unemployed are becoming a new underclass.
长期失业的人正形成新的贫困阶层。 - The basic problems of the inner-city underclass are inadequate housing and lack of jobs.
老城区底层人群面临的基本问题是住房紧张和就业不足。 - They are the underclass and thus usually left out of the picture.
他们属于最下层,一般就都被人们所忽略了. - He believes that unemployment is socially divisive and is leading to the creation of an underclass.
他认为失业会造成社会分化,道致贫困阶层的产生. - In a generation, they have descended from proud working class to demoralized underclass.
仅仅经过一代人, 他们便从自豪的工人阶级蜕化成道德败坏的社会底层分子.
词组短语
- functional underclass 功能性的底层
- Black Underclass 黑人底层阶级
- troubled underclass 麻烦的下层阶级
- an underclass 下级
- information underclass 信息平民阶级
短语
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.