| 释义 |
caste/kɑ:st/n. 1 any of the Hindu hereditary classes, distinguished by relative degrees of purity or pollution, whose members have no social contact with other classes but are socially equal with one another and often follow the same occupations (印度社会的)种姓；世袭家族 2 a more or less exclusive social class 种姓集团；(排外性的)社会集团 3 a system of such classes 种姓制度 4 the position it confers 种姓地位 5 Zool. a form of social insect having a particular function 【动】级(一种具有特定功能的社会性昆虫) □ lose caste descend in the social order 失去社会地位 [Spanish and Portuguese casta ‘lineage, race, breed’, fem. of casto ‘pure, CHASTE’] |