castes

英 [kɑːsts]

美 [kæsts]

n.  (印度教的四大)种姓; (尤指禁止其他等级成员进入的)社会阶层，社会等级; 社会等级制度
caste的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (印度社会的)种姓，等级
  Acasteis one of the traditional social classes into which people are divided in a Hindu society.
  1. 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
  Casteis the system of dividing people in a society into different social classes.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• The new study also reveals how elements in the genome may influence the development of vastly different honeybee castes, such as queens and workers, from the same genetic material.
  这项新研究也揭示出基因中的元素是如何影响蜜蜂阶层如蜂王和工蜂的巨大差异的。
• We want a society with neither castes nor ranks.
  我们想要一个没有等级和阶级的社会。
• A member of the mercantile and professional Hindu caste; the third of the four main castes.
  印度世袭四个阶级中的商人和职业艺人阶级；属于印度世袭阶级中的第三阶级。
• Scheduled castes or scheduled tribes;
  在册种姓或在册部落；
• Determination of the supercooling points of various castes and developmental stages of the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta ( Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in mainland China
  我国大陆红火蚁不同等级和虫态过冷却点的测定
• Honey bees have three castes for the division of labour in a hive: queens, workers and drones.
  蜜蜂由于在蜂群中分工的不同，可分为三种：蜂后、工蜂和雄蜂。
• Most of the upper castes worship the Goddess Kali.
  印度上层种姓多数崇拜女神时母。
• Some Congress leaders see the budget as a last chance to buy votes with handouts aimed at softening the sting of widening inequalities between rich and poor, urban and rural areas and upper and lower castes.
  一些国会党领导人将此次预算视为最后一次拉拢选票的机会，借机宣传其缓和贫富、城乡地区、以及不同种姓间差距日益扩大等矛盾的目标。
• Committee on Untouchability Educational and Economic Development for the Scheduled Castes
  贱民阶级的贱民制度、教育和经济发展问题委员
• In1990 "reservations" in government jobs and university places for dalits were extended to a group of castes slightly higher-up the pecking order, the "Other Backward Classes"( OBCs).
  1990年，在政府工作与大学里给达利人预留的位子，甚至产生了一个等级，这个等级比起“其它的落后等级”要稍稍高一个社会等级。