underclass

英 [ˈʌndəklɑːs]

美 [ˈʌndərklæs]

n.  社会底层; 贫困阶层

复数：underclasses　

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牛津词典

noun

• 社会底层；贫困阶层
  a social class that is very poor and has no status
  1. The long-term unemployed are becoming a new underclass.
     长期失业的人正形成新的贫困阶层。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 下层社会；社会底层
  A country'sunderclassconsists of those members of its population who are poor, and who have little chance of improving their situation.
  1. 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。
  2. Welfare has become identified with the long-term poor, the underclass.
     福利已经与长期贫困的下层社会联系在了一起。

英英释义

noun

• the social class lowest in the social hierarchy
  Synonym:lower class

双语例句

• Underclass mothers and children.
  下层阶级的母亲和孩子。
• Generation by generation, these people strive perpetually in the underclass.
  一代接一代，这些人只能终身在下层社会里苦苦挣扎。
• The implication, that an unequal society was inevitable and fair, and that a black, inner city cognitive underclass was having too many children, made it seem as though eugenics had never gone away.
  这暗示着，社会的不平等是不可避免的，也是公平的，而城市中心的黑人认知下层阶级生的孩子太多，使得优生学似乎从来没有消失过。
• The creation of a new underclass in China and its implications.
  中国新的下层阶级的产生和它的含意。
• It is from this "underclass," and those who take advantage of it, that most of the violence springs& the violence which is one of the least pleasant aspects of American society.
  也正是这个“社会底层”，有些人利用它，制造大部分暴力事件，这成为美国社会最不和谐的一个方面。
• The long-term unemployed now constitute a sort of underclass.
  长期失业人员现在构成了一个底层阶级。
• And as long as China finds no better way to educate its rural poor, it's staring down a future with a100 million-strong underclass.
  如果中国找不到教育农村人口的更好方式，那么该国的未来将不甚乐观。
• Will the opening of public schools to these children from the social underclass increase their social mobility?
  公办学校向农民工子女开放是否会带来社会流动机会的增加？
• "We are happy and proud that so many people think the music video represents heartfelt expression of migrant workers and the underclass," Wang said.
  王旭说：很多朋友认为我们的歌声能够真实表达了农民工以及弱势群体的心声，对此我们感到很高兴，也很自豪。
• Welfare has become identified with the long-term poor, the underclass.
  福利已经与长期贫困的下层社会联系在了一起。