caste
caste 英 [kɑ:st] 美 [kæst]
n. （印度社会中的）种姓；（具有严格等级差别的）社会地位；（排他的）社会团体
名词复数:castes
- The word caste was originally associated with India's traditional system of hereditary and rigidly stratified classes, but this noun can now be used to refer to any social group distinguished by shared characteristics, such as rank, economic wealth, or profession.
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- n. （印度社会中的）种姓；（具有严格等级差别的）社会地位；（排他的）社会团体
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1. This book treats of the caste system in India.
这本书论述了印度的种姓制度。
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2. But more importantly for them, he was from a lower caste.
然而他们认为更重要的是库马尔来是一个低种姓。
- caste (n.) "one of the hereditary social groups of India," 1610s from Portuguese casta "breed, race, caste," earlier casta raça, "unmixed race," from Latin castus "cut off, separated" (also "pure," via notion of "cut off" from faults), past participle of carere "to be cut off from," from PIE *kas-to-, from root *kes- "to cut." Caste system is first recorded 1840. An earlier, now-obsolete sense of caste in English is "a race of men" (1550s), from Latin castus "chaste."
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