the underclass

基本解釋

The underclass is the unspoken but ever-present shadow of our modern lifestyle.
該下層階級是我們現(xiàn)代生活方式中不可言及卻又永遠存在的陰影。
I may even be the only black face in the room, the only representative of the underclass.
或許我會是整個教室中的唯一黑人，唯一來自底層的代表。
On the one hand, they live in the underclass and decided to form themselves with American white culture so as to shift the inferior social status, but the mainstream culture rejects them;
一方面，他們被迫選擇美國白人文化來形塑自我，試圖改變屈辱低下的地位，卻因種族歧視與種族隔離之故，被主流文化拒絕和排斥；

The underclass, one gathers, should be dulled with charity and welfare provision lest it turn nasty.
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That they will make you part of the underclass you measure your self-worth against.
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They realize we are all the underclass and that the current system is designed to keep it that way.
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