caste

/kæst. kɑ:st/

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📖 中文释义

  1. n. 印度的种姓制度, (排他的)社会团体

🧩 词形变化

复数 castes

💬 双语例句

  1. In Tocqueville’s world, the destruction of caste was only partial. He wrote for white men who knew their nationality, knew what caste membership meant, and knew the privileges such membership brought.

    在托克维尔的世界中，等级的消灭只是局部的。 他为知道自己的国籍、知道等级成员资格意味着什么、知道这一资格能带来什么特权的白人男性写作。

  2. Neo-medievalism is rooted in nostalgia for a social order based on inequality, caste, and clan, enforced by terror. The lionization of historical despots reflects the contemporary embrace of such pre-modern, radically anti-democratic and unjust values.

🔗 常用搭配

caste based partiescaste constraints racecaste creed colorcaste discrimination existcaste harijan formerlycaste membership meantchallenged upper castepresumably immutable caste
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
  1. n. social status or position conferred by a system based on class
  2. n. (Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus; stratified according to ritual purity
  3. n. a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth
  4. n. in some social insects (such as ants) a physically distinct individual or group of individuals specialized to perform certain functions in the colony
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