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Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary

proletariat [.prolə'tεrɪət] [.prəule'tεərɪət]
  1. 1. noun (古罗马社会中的)最下层阶级
  2. 2. noun [Old-fashioned] 任何社会中的)最下层阶级
  3. 3. noun 工人阶级;尤指无产阶级

Collins English-English Dictionary

proletariat ["prəυlɪ'tεərɪət]
  1. 1. n all wage-earners collectively
  2. 2. n the lower or working class
  3. 3. n (in Marxist theory) the class of wage-earners, esp industrial workers, in a capitalist society, whose only possession of significant material value is their labour
  4. 4. n (in ancient Rome) the lowest class of citizens, who had no property
  5. 5. n [Etymology] C19: via French from Latin proletarius proletarian

Examples

The daily struggle of the proletariat sharpens the instability of bourgeois society.
工人阶级的日常斗争加剧了资产阶级社会的动荡。
他爷爷是老一辈的无产阶级革命家。
His grandfather was a proletariat revolutionary of the older generation.

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