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underclass

/uhn-der-klas, -klahs/US // ˈʌn dərˌklæs, -ˌklɑs //UK // (ˈʌndəˌklɑːs) //

下层社会,下层阶级,底层社会,底层阶级

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a social stratum consisting of impoverished persons with very low social status.

Examples

  • Tremendous advances in solar power have made this shift possible, and an android underclass provides maintenance labor.

  • Reactions to both events are driven by ignorance, disregard, and dehumanization of an underclass of people of color.

  • Dig down, and we know why our dark and twisted fantasies of a suffering, angry American underclass have finally come true.

  • It was music from the underclass, the language of rent parties and cotton fields.

  • Squaring the needs and aspirations of an ossifying underclass, however, is the more difficult lift.

  • My family were no longer working class, but effectively underclass, living on benefits.

  • The goal of building the middle class and shrinking the underclass is also why I believe that you should raise the minimum wage.

  • It is not large enough to accommodate all of the students, and the underclass men attend mass elsewhere.