| 单词 | second-class citizen |
| 释义 | second-class citizensecond-class citizen UNIMPORTANTsomeone who is made to feel unimportant because of the way people treat them 二等公民 Examples from the Corpus second-class citizen• One danger of treating all crime as sickness is that it makes the criminal a second-class citizen.• They want to treat all Arabs as slaves and second-class citizens.• Here we are, second-class citizens in our own country.• Private car-owners have become second-class citizens.• We did not have a chance to mingle with Okinawansthey were considered second-class citizens.• Women were very definitely second-class citizens.• Some speak resentfully of a takeover by the Wessis, with themselves marked out for the role of second-class citizens.• But they remained second-class citizens as the Service restocked itself with young men of the right background from Oxford and Cambridge. → second-class citizen at citizen(1) |
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