caste是什么意思？

caste

英[kɑ:st] 美[kæst]

• n. （印度社会中的）种姓，印度的世袭阶级，等级（制度）；

复数：castes;

例句

• This book treats of the caste system in India. 这本书论述了印度的种姓制度。
• the Hindu caste system 印度种姓制度
• Look at every one equally, irrespective of rich or poor, noble or of low caste. 平等地对待每一个人，而不论其贫富或贵贱。
• John has lost caste with the educationalists. 约翰已为教育界人士所不齿.
• According to Herodotus, the Magi were the sacred caste of the Medes. 依照希罗多德所说, 祭司(魔法师)是米提亚人的宗教阶层.
• He was born into the lowest caste. 他出生于最低贱的种姓.
• The priestly caste does not normally intermarry with the warrior caste. 教士阶级通常不与武土阶级通婚.
• He has two half-caste children. 他有两个混血孩子。
• The caste system shapes nearly every facet of Indian life. 种姓制度几乎影响着印度生活的方方面面。
• Caste is defined primarily by social honour attained through personal lifestyle... 社会等级制度主要是通过个人生活方式赢得的社会荣誉来确定。

词组

• lose caste
  descend in the caste system, e. g. by having contact with a person of low caste, by eating foods regarded as unclean, or by taking employment regarded as of lower status 失去种姓地位（因与下层种姓之人接触，吃被视为不洁的食物或从事下等人的职业等而在种姓系统中地位下降）

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  (印度社会的)种姓，等级
  A caste is one of the traditional social classes into which people are divided in a Hindu society.
  例句
  Most of the upper castes worship the Goddess Kali. 印度上层种姓多数崇拜女神时母。
• N-UNCOUNT
  种姓制度;社会等级制度
  Caste is the system of dividing people in a society into different social classes.
  例句
  Caste is defined primarily by social honour attained through personal lifestyle... 社会等级制度主要是通过个人生活方式赢得的社会荣誉来确定。 The caste system shapes nearly every facet of Indian life. 种姓制度几乎影响着印度生活的方方面面。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  种姓(按照血统、阶级、财富等严格区分的社会制度)
  the Hindu caste system 印度种姓制度 He was born into the lowest caste. 他出生于最低贱的种姓。 He belongs to one of the highest castes. 他属于最高种姓的一种。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. social status or position conferred by a system based on class;
  "lose caste by doing work beneath one's station"
  2. (Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus; stratified according to ritual purity
  3. a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth