| 词汇 | underclass |
| 释义 | underclass noun[ Cusually singular ] uk /ˈʌn.də.klɑːs/ us /ˈʌn.dɚ.klæs/ a group of people with a lower social and economic position than any of the other classes of society: 下层社会；下层阶级；贫困阶层 The long-term unemployed now constitute a kind of underclass.如今长期失业人员形成了贫困阶层。 Class & class-consciousness in general anti-bourgeois anti-snob arriviste bougie gentrification gentrify go/come down in the worldidiom go/come up in the worldidiom petit bourgeois petty bourgeois pleb plebby the bottom of the heapidiom the gentry the petite bourgeoisie the upper crust trailer trash ungenteel ungentrified upper class underclass | American Dictionaryunderclass noun[ C ] us/ˈʌn·dərˌklæs/ the lowest economic and social class in society, consisting of people who are considered to have few opportunities to improve themselves underclass | Business Englishunderclass noun[ C,usually singular ] ECONOMICSuk /ˈʌndəˌklɑːs/us the poorest people in a society, especially when discussing their lack of opportunities to find work: Letting guest workers into America doesn't create an underclass. The nation needs to reduce the vast gap between the wealthy and a jobless underclass. Examples of underclassunderclass He does not explain how the underclass, thus defined, is to be eliminated as he wants it to be. Such poor quality housing may be associated with an underclass that was especially numerous in the thirteenth century. Does this vast underclass have the potential to act as a force for the transformation of state forms, and how do they view the state? A number of studies testify to their underclass continuities. Most important here, the defence of class against identity is invariably focused on the working class or 'underclass'. This in turn detached them from society and created a quasi-permanent underclass trapped into a culture of dependency. It was also guaranteed to subvert any serious collective challenge by the town's underclass to the new industrial paternalism imposed by the factories. Otherwise, charity would create an underclass of the slothful poor, which would invalidate the original charitable intent. For the greed and neediness, the divisiveness, for the communities consigned to the underclass. Nested within the discourse of social exclusion is its own underclass version. The income distribution became markedly less egalitarian, and rising crime and other social ills associated with the development of an underclass afflicted the country. It debases recipients and leads to the creation of an underclass, pauperism and a culture of dependency. Such study offers a new way to bring the underclasses, especially children and women, into the mainstream of historical research. Yet the squeeze that elite farmers place on their poorer neighbours does not diminish self-help among the underclass. There are similar kinship relationships as well, pointing to a clearly distinguishable underclass in the parish. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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