caste
美 [kæst]
英 [kɑːst] 
- n.社会等级;(印度教的四大)种姓;社会等级制度
- 网络种姓制度;社会地位;阶级
词形变化
复数:castes 同义词
英汉双解
1. | [c] (印度教的四大)种姓any of the four main divisions of Hindu society, originally those made according to functions in society |
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| high-caste Brahmins 高级种姓婆罗门 |
2. | [c] (尤指禁止其他等级成员进入的)社会阶层,社会等级a social class, especially one whose members do not allow others to join it |
3. | [u] 社会等级制度the system of dividing society into classes based on differences in family origin, rank or wealth |
英汉解释
n. | 1. (印度世袭的)种姓;(世袭的)阶级;等级(制度) |
英英解释
例句
Poverty is often both cause and consequence of norms and discrimination that build on race, caste or gender.
对于种族、阶级和性别基础之上的规范和歧视来说,贫困既是因又是果。
So, what each one of us can do is to be non-communal: We can cease to be Brahmins, cease to belong to any caste or to any country.
因此,我们个人能做的就是成为非地方自治主义者:我们不再是婆罗门、不属于任何等级或国家。
The Warrior Caste sent men to patrol the road, and thought the matter settled.
战士阶级的人派出了一些人去道路上巡逻,并且认为事情已经得到解决。
Rao also warns the caste census may be just as vulnerable to corruption as the rest of the Indian political system.
拉奥还警告说,种姓普查或许也像印度其它政治体系一样容易腐败。
And to root out of his mind the idea of caste superiority, he cleaned a pariah's house with his long and neglected hair.
为了发现自己头脑内是否有种姓优越感的想法,他用长长的,被忽视的头发清理一个贱民的房间。
The ancient caste system was the most obvious symbol of this idea. But it had many subtler expressions, too.
古老的社会制度是这个观念最明显的表征,但它也同时展现在许多细微的地方。
Caste politicians are not alone in arguing that this makes a nonsense of the system.
种姓主义政客不无讥讽地称这一制度毫无意义。
On the rise is a legion of regional and caste-based parties that do not even pretend to be guided by the national interest.
冉冉上升的是一些地区性和基于种性的政党,这些党甚至连装作以国家利益为指针也不屑。
Dalits, who were formerly known as Untouchables because of their low caste status, are sometimes referred to abusively as chuhra and chamar.
达利特因为自身的低种姓地位以前被认为是“不可接触者”,有时也被辱骂成贱民。
At the bottom of this caste system, as before, are the shareholders, who get any leftovers.
在这个系统的底部,股东和以前一样只有最后的求偿权。
To be born a Hindu in India is to enter the caste system, one of the world's longest surviving forms of social stratification.
出生在印度的印度教徒是进入种姓制度,一个世界上最长的生存形式的社会阶层。
With its caste system, and bad state schools, India may be a more unequal society than the numbers alone suggest.
印种姓制度尚存,公立学校糟糕,其社会可能较数字显示的更不公平。
Fragments remained as Indonesia and the Pacific islands, and a few survivors reached India, where they became the elite Brahman caste.
碎片仍然在印度尼西亚和太平洋岛屿,少数生还者到达了印度,他们成为了婆罗门精英阶层。
Stopping to chat, he said: "All the village is with me, caste is unimportant! "
停下来聊天时,他说:“村子的一切都与我同在,种姓不重要!”
There is at least a small risk, however, that some in Russia 's ruling caste might feel uneasy about the shenanigans.
然而至少有点冒险,有些俄罗斯的当权阶层可能对这恶作剧感到担忧。
The best answer would be where the candidate is unaware of his or her caste.
最佳答案应该是候选人没有意识到他或她的阶级。
The caste system is one where one's parentage determines one's place in society.
等级制度以人的出身决定其社会地位。
But the word 'caste' is routinely used by government experts to refer to social strata in underprivileged Muslim communities.
但政府专家却经常用“种姓”这个词来指弱势穆斯林社区的社会阶层。
This highly skilled member of the Intendent caste has bioengineering talents that rival the skilled Shapers of his people.
技艺精湛的他虽然属于管理者种姓,但在生物工程学方面的才能甚至能和同胞中的塑造者相媲美。
It is widely believed that this reflects a choice of competence over caste and secularism over sect.
外界普遍认为,这反映出人们选择的是能力而非社会等级,是政教分离主义而非宗派主义。
Girls from the Madiga caste otherwise known as the "untouchable caste " have really limited prospects.
来自Madiga种姓的女孩或被称为“贱民阶层”她们才真算得上是前途无亮。
If such a person is calmly resigned to his fate and lives rightly, he will be elevated in caste in his next life.
如果这样的人是冷静地辞职,他的命运和生活正确的,他将升高,种姓在其下的生活。
Viewed from Delhi, India's capital, caste-based parties like the BSP are more or less deplorable.
从印度的首都德里来看,象社民党这种以种姓为基础的党派都多少有些可叹。
The direct descendants of his Malva-caste soldiers are also developing a reputation for organisational excellence.
他的Malva-caste士兵们的直系后裔也将卓越组织才能的声望发挥得淋漓尽致。
The concept of social mobility is starting to challenge a previously fatalistic attitude to class and caste.
社会流动观念开始挑战以往对阶级和等级的宿命态度。
Gao is part of a privileged " native " villager caste which has cornered rents from factories and their migrant workforces .
高傅明属于地位优越的“本地”村民,附近工厂和外地工人租房子的钱都落入了他们腰包。
It's certainly a vast improvement over a country in which millions were oppressed for being born into the wrong caste or gender or family.
此外,由于遍及整个国家的大范围改良,千百万出生时因为出生时的种姓、性别和家族原因而备受欺压的平民获得了重生。
Many candidates seek votes through beggar-thy-neighbor appeals to the self-interest of a particular linguistic, caste or religious group.
许多候选人通过以邻为壑的方法谋求选票,以迎合某个特定语种人群,阶层或宗教群体特谋私利。
Everywhere in Europe I encountered theliving facts of medieval caste and of the static medieval social order.
我在欧洲处处遇到活生生的中世纪等级制度和静态社会秩序例子。
Although the caste system has a negative impact on Indian society, its long-term existence indicates that it has some positive sense.
种姓制度虽然对印度社会产生了一系列消极影响,但是它在印度社会的长期存在表明它具有一定的积极意义。
The brutal aliens greatly revere combat and pain, thus the warrior caste is believed by many to be the most favored of the gods.
这个野蛮的外星种族极度崇拜战斗和痛苦,因此许多人相信战士种姓是最受神青睐的。
I have no satisfactory explanation for all this, but I think it may have something to do with India's much-reviled caste system.
对这些问题,我没有令人满意的解释,但是我认为这或许和印度饱受谴责的社会等级制度体系有关。
But China doesn t witness bloodletting in the name of religion or caste, of the sorts you see in India from time to time.
但中国没有发生以宗教或世袭为名义的流血事件,而你在印度却不时看到。
In a patronage-based democracy, where caste represents the prevailing identity, this was inevitable.
在种姓代表着主流身份的人数优势民主中,这是不可避免的。
There was a separate refreshment room for Bengali boys for meeting their caste requirements.
这所学校里有一间单独的茶点室,是为满足孟加拉孩子种姓的需要而设立的。
Born into a lower caste, Poggle bucked the strict societal structure of the Geonosians and aspired to leadership.
生在较低的等级制度,波哥冲撞严格的吉诺西斯人社会结构,并向往成为领导者。
Only a few high caste people in india enjoy so called democracy but most low income and low caste people only enjoy dirty poor and anarchy.
在印度,只有少数高种姓的人享受所谓的民主,而大多数低收入和低种姓的人只是过着贫穷、混乱的生活。
Language, religion, and caste are major determinants of social and political organisation within the highly diverse Indian population.
语言、宗教、世袭等级是高度分化的印度人口中社会和政治组织的主要决定因素。
From our very birth we have the eight fetters of hatred, shame, lineage, pride of good conduct, fear, secretiveness , caste, and grief.
我们每一世都受到八种束缚:仇恨,羞耻,世系,良好行为带来的骄傲,恐惧,隐匿,种姓制度和忧伤。
Up to half of university places reserved for low-caste students are left vacant.
多达一半的大学入学名额留给低种姓学生不过是空谈。