Caste

(noun.) in some social insects (such as ants) a physically distinct individual or group of individuals specialized to perform certain functions in the colony.

(noun.) a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth.

(noun.) (Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus; stratified according to ritual purity.

(noun.) social status or position conferred by a system based on class; 'lose caste by doing work beneath one's station'.

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• If he belonged to some savage tribe he had a savage wife--a dozen of them perhaps--and wild, half-caste children. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• She felt as if a great gulf lay between her caste and his, and that to cross it or meet him half-way would be to degrade herself. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• As we have already noted, this priestly caste was still only struggling to dominate Indian life in the days of Gautama. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• However caste arose, there can be no doubt of its extraordinary hold upon the Indian mind. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The various subdivisions of caste are very complex; many are practically trade organizations. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Vous ne voulez pas de moi pour voisin, he growled: vous vous donnez des airs de caste; vous me traitez en paria; he scowled. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The history of science is hostile to the spirit of caste. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The real political genius stands between the actual life of men, their wishes and their needs, and all the windings of official caste and professional snobbery. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• They were Brahmins (he said) who had forfeited their caste in the service of the god. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Unless, after long experience, I am utterly mistaken, those men are high-caste Brahmins. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The caste system Yuan Chwang found fully established in spite of Buddha, and the Brahmins were now altogether in the ascendant. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Remember that she comes of a caste who do not lightly show emotion. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• By losing caste a man does not sink to a lower caste; he becomes outcast. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He saw in the spreading doctrine of Buddhism an ally against the growth of priestcraft and caste. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He tried to make a caste of the peasants and small cultivators, and to restrict them from moving from their holdings. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Indian writers say that their function was to wait upon the three twice born castes above them. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He names the four main castes we have mentioned in chap. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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