caste
US /kæst/
UK /kæst/
名詞
1.
種姓
each of the hereditary classes of Hindu society, distinguished by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution and of social status.
範例:
•
The traditional caste system in India has deep historical roots.
印度傳統的種姓制度有著深厚的歷史根源。
•
Marriage outside one's caste was traditionally forbidden.
傳統上，禁止與本種姓以外的人結婚。
2.
種姓制度
a system of dividing society into hereditary classes.
範例:
•
Many societies historically had some form of caste system.
許多社會在歷史上都存在某種形式的種姓制度。
•
The novel explores the rigid social caste of the Victorian era.
這部小說探討了維多利亞時代嚴格的社會等級制度。
在 Lingoland 學習這個單詞