第三人称复数：castes
caste的意思
名词（印度社会中的）种姓; 印度的世袭阶级; 等级（制度）
caste
名词
1. The caste system is still strong in some eastern countries such as India.
种姓制度在一些东方国家如印度仍然很牢固。
2. He came from the highest Hindu caste.
他出身印度最高的种姓。
3. I suppose you also have a caste system in your society.
我想你们的社会里也有一种等级制度。
1. 等级制度：他用有限理性来解释厂商的定价行为,用印度的种姓等级制度(Caste)来解释失业,提出移动的自然失业率,一以贯之Akerlof坚信的是,要为凯恩斯经济学奠定微观基础,非标准的假设很重要,为此经济学要向心理学和社会学寻找武器.
2. 世袭阶级：但是,我们不得不承认印度社会的世袭阶级(caste)是一个非常复杂的现象,而其当中政治亦如此. 印度的左派与这些运动的连结,很明显的非常微小薄弱. 不过,某些马列派的批判也不见得不无道理:有些贱民和低下阶级的联盟被资助它们的西方非政府组织支配着,
3. 社会等级：另外,印度的社会等级(Caste)是很严厉的,不同的社会等级之间也是不能通婚的. 尽管社会在发展,但是印度的这些丑恶的传统却像顽瘤一样根深蒂固.
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1. (印度社会的)种姓，等级
A caste is one of the traditional social classes into which people are divided in a Hindu society.
e.g. Most of the upper castes worship the Goddess Kali.
印度上层种姓多数崇拜女神时母。
2. 种姓制度;社会等级制度
Caste is the system of dividing people in a society into different social classes.
e.g. Caste is defined primarily by social honour attained through personal lifestyle...
社会等级制度主要是通过个人生活方式赢得的社会荣誉来确定。
e.g. The caste system shapes nearly every facet of Indian life.
种姓制度几乎影响着印度生活的方方面面。
1. In a way, the latter are a sort of " untouchable " caste.
2. But the scheme has been criticized for accentuating caste identities in India, where discrimination on caste is banned in the constitution.
3. The space for debate has been mainly used for venting their personal vendettas against India, whether it is about Indian English or the Indian caste system.
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4. Many of India's 1 billion people still live within a hierarchy imposed by the Hindu caste system and Muslims face widespread prejudice.
5. The Mosuo had a caste system that was sort of a slave society with a small noble class.
6. Knowledge in ancient India was protected by caste lines, not legal or economic ones.
7. The Dalit community in Sri Lanka is considered the lowest status in the caste system.
8. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has compared the caste system to apartheid South Africa.
noun
1. in some social insects (such as ants) a physically distinct individual or group of individuals specialized to perform certain functions in the colony
2. a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth
3. (Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus
stratified according to ritual purity
4. social status or position conferred by a system based on class
e.g. lose caste by doing work beneath one's station