caste
英 [kɑ?st]
美[k?st]
- n. （印度社會(huì)中的）種姓；（具有嚴(yán)格等級(jí)差別的）社會(huì)地位；（排他的）社會(huì)團(tuán)體
- n. (Caste)人名；(英、法)卡斯特
GRETEM8中低頻詞擴(kuò)展詞匯
詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?castes;
助記提示
1. 諧音“卡死他”。
中文詞源
caste 種姓制度
來(lái)自PIE *kes, 砍，切，進(jìn)一步來(lái)自PIE*sek, 詞源同saw, segment。本義為純粹的，后用來(lái)指印度的嚴(yán)格的種姓制度。
英文詞源
- caste
- caste: [16] Caste has no etymological connection with cast. It is borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese casta ‘race, breed’, a nominal use of the adjective casta ‘pure’, from Latin castus (source of English chaste). The notion underlying the word thus appears to be ‘racial purity’. Use of casta by the Portuguese in India with reference to the Hindu social groupings led to its being adopted in this sense by English in the 17th century.
=> chaste, incest - caste (n.)
- 1550s, "a race of men," from Latin castus "chaste," from castus "cut off, separated; pure" (via notion of "cut off" from faults), past participle of carere "to be cut off from" (and related to castration), from PIE *kas-to-, from root *kes- "to cut" (cognates: Latin cassus "empty, void"). Originally spelled cast in English and later often merged with cast (n.) in its secondary sense "sort, kind, style."
Application to Hindu social groups was picked up by English in India 1610s from Portuguese casta "breed, race, caste," earlier casta ra?a, "unmixed race," from the same Latin word. The current spelling of of the English word is from this reborrowing. Caste system is first recorded 1840.
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. Caste is defined primarily by social honour attained through personal life-style.
- 社會(huì)等級(jí)制度主要是通過(guò)個(gè)人生活方式贏得的社會(huì)榮譽(yù)來(lái)確定。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. He has two half-caste children.
- 他有兩個(gè)混血孩子。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 3. The caste system was rigidly enforced.
- 過(guò)去印度的種姓制度非常嚴(yán)格。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 4. The priestly caste does not normally intermarry with the warrior caste.
- 教士階級(jí)通常不與武土階級(jí)通婚.
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
- 5. He was born into the lowest caste.
- 他出生于最低賤的種姓.
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》