underclass

noun

1. 社会底层；贫困阶层
   a social class that is very poor and has no status
   1. The long-term unemployed are becoming a new underclass.
      长期失业的人正形成新的贫困阶层。

1. N-COUNT 下层社会；社会底层
   A country's underclass consists of those members of its population who are poor, and who have little chance of improving their situation.
   1. The basic problems of the inner-city underclass are inadequate housing and lack of jobs...
      老城区底层人群面临的基本问题是住房紧张和就业不足。
   2. Welfare has become identified with the long-term poor, the underclass.
      福利已经与长期贫困的下层社会联系在了一起。

1. The basic problems of the inner-city underclass are inadequate housing and lack of jobs
   老城区底层人群面临的基本问题是住房紧张和就业不足。
2. Welfare has become identified with the long-term poor, the underclass.
   福利已经与长期贫困的下层社会联系在了一起。
3. Throughout the 1980s and 90s it was a raw and unflinching expression of the joys, sorrows and aspirations of the US 'black underclass.
   20世纪80至90年代，它表达着美国下层黑人最原始、最直接的快乐、悲伤与心愿。
4. "We are happy and proud that so many people think the music video represents heartfelt expression of migrant workers and the underclass," Wang said.
   王旭说：很多朋友认为我们的歌声能够真实表达了农民工以及弱势群体的心声，对此我们感到很高兴，也很自豪。
5. The underclass is the unspoken but ever-present shadow of our modern lifestyle.
   该下层阶级是我们现代生活方式中不可言及却又永远存在的阴影。
6. The implication, that an unequal society was inevitable and fair, and that a black, inner city cognitive underclass was having too many children, made it seem as though eugenics had never gone away.
   这暗示着，社会的不平等是不可避免的，也是公平的，而城市中心的黑人认知下层阶级生的孩子太多，使得优生学似乎从来没有消失过。
7. Will the opening of public schools to these children from the social underclass increase their social mobility?
   公办学校向农民工子女开放是否会带来社会流动机会的增加？
8. So what if some of that financial largesse could be deployed within the surrounding city blocks, creating assets and new wealth within the underclass?
   因此，何不将慷慨的拨款划一部分用于建设城郊，增加下层阶级人民的财产和收入？
9. And as long as China finds no better way to educate its rural poor, it's staring down a future with a100 million-strong underclass.
   如果中国找不到教育农村人口的更好方式，那么该国的未来将不甚乐观。
10. Underclass mothers and children.
    下层阶级的母亲和孩子。
11. In a generation, they have descended from proud working class to demoralized underclass.
    仅仅经过一代人，他们便从自豪的工人阶级蜕化成道德败坏的社会底层分子。
12. As the poor underclass is the central focus, the theory tries to explain its growth in the process of its adaptation to society from social situation perspective.
    该理论的中心关照对象是贫困群体，它试图从情境出发，解释社会适应过程中贫困群体生长的原因。
13. Alternative insurance arrangements, they added, might calm public fears about the risk of creating a genetic underclass.
    他们补充说，变通的保险协议可能平息公众对制造基因低等危机的恐惧情绪。
14. An underclass boy named Wusan entered a monastery without revealing his status.
    有一个叫无三的孩子出身贱民，只好隐姓埋名进了寺院。
15. Atwo-tier labour market provides flexibility, but on the back of an underclass of temporary workers.
    “能屈能伸”的市场提供了柔韧性，但是在牺牲了临时工利益的前提下。
16. The US underclass is bulging.
    美国的下层阶级人数正在扩大。
17. Generation by generation, these people strive perpetually in the underclass.
    一代接一代，这些人只能终身在下层社会里苦苦挣扎。
18. An inconspicuous urban underclass lives in squalor.
    在这个肮脏破败的地方居住着不为人注意的城市下层阶级。
19. He believes that unemployment is socially divisive and is leading to the creation of an underclass.
    他认为失业会造成社会分化，道致贫困阶层的产生。
20. A new survey shows that the long-term unemployed are becoming a new underclass, and the survey covers a wide geographical area.
    一项新的调查表明：长期失业的人正形成新的贫困阶层，而且此项调查覆盖的地理区域非常广阔。
21. Perhaps the most ominous sign for any society is the seething presence of a permanent underclass.
    也许，任何社会最不吉祥的征兆是它有一批在经济上永远翻不了身的人在你眼前晃来晃去。
22. The creation of a new underclass in China and its implications.
    中国新的下层阶级的产生和它的含意。
23. At home, China has spawned a new caste of millionaires, an emerging middle-class centred in large cities on the coast, alongside a struggling and increasingly fractious rural underclass and urban poor.
    在国内，中国孕育了一个新的富豪阶层、一个集中在沿海大城市的新兴中产阶层，以及一个苦苦挣扎、越来越难以驾驭的农村下层和城市贫民阶层。
24. China's new white-collar underclass is developing an intimate connections as they share struggles and seek to adapt to their nation's changing society.
    中国的新的“底层白领”建立起了一种亲密的联系，源于他们一起奋斗，想要赶上中国日新月异的社会变迁。
25. Most importantly, China's leaders are aware that high inequality could aggravate unrest and create a permanent underclass, so they have ordered big increases in social spending.
    最重要的是，中国领导人已意识到，严重的不平等可能加剧社会动荡，并产生一个永久的下层阶级，因此，他们已下令大幅增加社会支出。
26. It is from this "underclass," and those who take advantage of it, that most of the violence springs& the violence which is one of the least pleasant aspects of American society.
    也正是这个“社会底层”，有些人利用它，制造大部分暴力事件，这成为美国社会最不和谐的一个方面。
27. Just as likely, he has judged that the forces of Thailand's underclass cannot, this time, be so easily contained.
    但也有可能是因为，据他判断，这次泰国社会底层人士的力量无法轻易得到遏制。
28. The long-term unemployed now constitute a sort of underclass.
    长期失业人员现在构成了一个底层阶级。
29. But until they are treated the same as regular employees, they will remain a poorly motivated underclass.
    然而，他们也表示除非可以和固定员工享受同样的待遇，不然处于底层的感觉会让士气持续低落。
30. London has an underclass ( a hateful word to the people in it, but no worse, and more accurate, than the poor).
    伦敦有一个下层阶级（对于属于这个阶级的人来说，这是一个令人厌恶的字眼；但它不比穷人这个字眼更糟，而且比穷人这个字眼更准确地体现了这个阶级的特性）。

noun

1. the social class lowest in the social hierarchy

   Synonym:    lower class