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Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
- proletariat
[.prolə'tεrɪət]
[.prəule'tεərɪət]
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1.
noun
(古罗马社会中的)最下层阶级
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2.
noun
[Old-fashioned]
(任何社会中的)最下层阶级
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3.
noun
工人阶级;尤指无产阶级
Collins English-English Dictionary
- proletariat
["prəυlɪ'tεərɪət]
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1.
n
all wage-earners collectively
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2.
n
the lower or working class
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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
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4.
n
(in ancient Rome) the lowest class of citizens, who had no property
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5.
n
[Etymology]
C19: via French from Latin proletarius proletarian
Examples
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The daily struggle of the proletariat sharpens the instability of bourgeois society.
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工人阶级的日常斗争加剧了资产阶级社会的动荡。
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他爷爷是老一辈的无产阶级革命家。
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His grandfather was a proletariat revolutionary of the older generation.
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