underclass

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• 英式音标 [ˈʌn.də.klɑːs]
• 美式音标 [ˈʌn.dɚ.klæs]
• 国际音标 ['ʌndəklɑ:s, -klæs]
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基本解释

• n. 下层阶级，下层社会；一、二年级学生

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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

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

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• a group of people with a lower social and economic position than any of the other classes of society

柯林斯英英字典

• A country's underclass consists of those members of its population who are poor, and who have little chance of improving their situation.