the underclass

基本解释

The underclass is the unspoken but ever-present shadow of our modern lifestyle.
该下层阶级是我们现代生活方式中不可言及却又永远存在的阴影。
I may even be the only black face in the room, the only representative of the underclass.
或许我会是整个教室中的唯一黑人，唯一来自底层的代表。
On the one hand, they live in the underclass and decided to form themselves with American white culture so as to shift the inferior social status, but the mainstream culture rejects them;
一方面，他们被迫选择美国白人文化来形塑自我，试图改变屈辱低下的地位，却因种族歧视与种族隔离之故，被主流文化拒绝和排斥；

The underclass, one gathers, should be dulled with charity and welfare provision lest it turn nasty.
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That they will make you part of the underclass you measure your self-worth against.
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They realize we are all the underclass and that the current system is designed to keep it that way.
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