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 third of the four main Hindu castes: the mercantile and professional caste.
  印度教四个主要世袭阶级的第三个等级；商人和自由职业者阶级。
• An organism that can assume more than one adult form as in the castes of ants or termites.
  蚂蚁或白蚁社会中可以呈现多个成体形态的有机体。
• Revealing the status of low-caste boys in a mixed-caste classroom depresses the performance of students from lower castes compared with what happens if caste is not revealed.
  如果在一个种姓混杂的班级里让大家知道谁是低种姓学生，那么低种姓学生的表现就会不如其身份没有暴露时的表现。
• The digestive and reproductive systems of different castes of the more primitive T.ampliceps were studied and compared to those of the more advanced O.formosanus.
  本试验研究了低等白蚁扩头蔡白蚁不同品级的消化和生殖系统结构，并与高等白蚁黑翅土白蚁进行了比较。
• Scheduled castes or scheduled tribes;
  在册种姓或在册部落；
• More than five decades after the Indian constitution promises a casteless society, there is no sign that the castes ( jatis) are disappearing.
  在印度宪法允诺一个“无种姓”社会五十多年后，种姓尚没有显示出任何要消失的迹象，但变化也确确实实地发生了。
• 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。
• 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
• 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。
• 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。