caste

Poverty is often both cause and consequence of norms and discrimination that build on race, caste or gender.

对于种族、阶级和性别基础之上的规范和歧视来说，贫困既是因又是果。

So, what each one of us can do is to be non-communal: We can cease to be Brahmins, cease to belong to any caste or to any country.

因此，我们个人能做的就是成为非地方自治主义者：我们不再是婆罗门、不属于任何等级或国家。

The Warrior Caste sent men to patrol the road, and thought the matter settled.

战士阶级的人派出了一些人去道路上巡逻，并且认为事情已经得到解决。

Rao also warns the caste census may be just as vulnerable to corruption as the rest of the Indian political system.

拉奥还警告说，种姓普查或许也像印度其它政治体系一样容易腐败。

And to root out of his mind the idea of caste superiority, he cleaned a pariah's house with his long and neglected hair.

为了发现自己头脑内是否有种姓优越感的想法，他用长长的，被忽视的头发清理一个贱民的房间。

The ancient caste system was the most obvious symbol of this idea. But it had many subtler expressions, too.

古老的社会制度是这个观念最明显的表征，但它也同时展现在许多细微的地方。

Caste politicians are not alone in arguing that this makes a nonsense of the system.

种姓主义政客不无讥讽地称这一制度毫无意义。

On the rise is a legion of regional and caste-based parties that do not even pretend to be guided by the national interest.

冉冉上升的是一些地区性和基于种性的政党，这些党甚至连装作以国家利益为指针也不屑。

Dalits, who were formerly known as Untouchables because of their low caste status, are sometimes referred to abusively as chuhra and chamar.

达利特因为自身的低种姓地位以前被认为是“不可接触者”，有时也被辱骂成贱民。

At the bottom of this caste system, as before, are the shareholders, who get any leftovers.

在这个系统的底部，股东和以前一样只有最后的求偿权。

To be born a Hindu in India is to enter the caste system, one of the world's longest surviving forms of social stratification.

出生在印度的印度教徒是进入种姓制度，一个世界上最长的生存形式的社会阶层。

With its caste system, and bad state schools, India may be a more unequal society than the numbers alone suggest.

印种姓制度尚存，公立学校糟糕，其社会可能较数字显示的更不公平。

Fragments remained as Indonesia and the Pacific islands, and a few survivors reached India, where they became the elite Brahman caste.

碎片仍然在印度尼西亚和太平洋岛屿，少数生还者到达了印度，他们成为了婆罗门精英阶层。

Stopping to chat, he said: "All the village is with me, caste is unimportant! "

停下来聊天时，他说：“村子的一切都与我同在，种姓不重要！”

There is at least a small risk, however, that some in Russia 's ruling caste might feel uneasy about the shenanigans.

然而至少有点冒险，有些俄罗斯的当权阶层可能对这恶作剧感到担忧。

The best answer would be where the candidate is unaware of his or her caste.

最佳答案应该是候选人没有意识到他或她的阶级。

The caste system is one where one's parentage determines one's place in society.

等级制度以人的出身决定其社会地位。

But the word 'caste' is routinely used by government experts to refer to social strata in underprivileged Muslim communities.

但政府专家却经常用“种姓”这个词来指弱势穆斯林社区的社会阶层。

This highly skilled member of the Intendent caste has bioengineering talents that rival the skilled Shapers of his people.

技艺精湛的他虽然属于管理者种姓，但在生物工程学方面的才能甚至能和同胞中的塑造者相媲美。

It is widely believed that this reflects a choice of competence over caste and secularism over sect.

外界普遍认为，这反映出人们选择的是能力而非社会等级，是政教分离主义而非宗派主义。