working class

noun

1. 工人阶级
   the social class whose members do not have much money or power and are usually employed to do manual work (= physical work using their hands)
   1. the political party of the working class
      工人阶级的政党
   2. The working class has/have rejected them in the elections.
      工人阶级在选举中没有投他们的票。

1. N-COUNT-COLL 工人阶级;劳动阶级;工薪阶层
   The working class or the working classes are the group of people in a society who do not own much property, who have low social status, and who do jobs which involve using physical skills rather than intellectual skills.
   1. A quarter of the working class voted for him.
      工薪阶层中有1/4的人投票支持他。
   2. ...increased levels of home ownership among the working classes.
      工薪阶层中住房自有率的提高
   3. Working class is also an adjective.
      
   4. ...a self-educated man from a working class background...
      自学成才的工薪阶层子弟
   5. The group is mainly black, mainly working-class.
      这个团体主要由黑人组成，而且大多是工人阶级。

1. The working class is still too small to enable a successful socialist revolution.
   工人阶级队伍还是非常弱小，不能成功实现社会主义革命。
2. The 1867 Reform Act extended the franchise to much of the male working class.
   《1867年改革法》扩大了选举权的范围，使多数男性工人都拥有了该权利。
3. We are both from working class stock.
   我们俩都出身于工人家庭。
4. Some say he's a traitor to the working class.
   一些人说他是工人阶级的叛徒。
5. One factor thought to have worked in his favour is his working class image
   据认为，一个帮上了他的因素就是他的工人阶级形象。
6. A quarter of the working class voted for him.
   工薪阶层中有1/4的人投票支持他。
7. It is the working class that is most selfless.
   工人阶级最大公无私。
8. Business depression usually causes misery among the working class.
   商业不景气常使劳工们受苦。
9. Her strength with working class voters and women is expected to help her in those states.
   预计她在工人阶层和妇女选民中的影响力将有助于她在那些州获胜。
10. However, the working class have been divided into some social classes.
    然而，工人阶级内部已分化为若干个社会阶层。
11. I have noticed that many people dining in McDonald's are students and people from the working class.
    我发现在麦当劳餐厅吃饭的人大都是学生和劳动阶层的人。
12. Naturally, the working class and the entire people under its leadership.
    当然是工人阶级和在它领导下的人民。
13. On the other hand, the contradictions between the working class and the bourgeoisie are antagonistic.
    工人阶级和资产阶级的矛盾，是对抗性的矛盾。
14. The industrial revolution created the industrial working class, the proletariat, and it later led to trade unionism.
    工业革命产生了工人阶级，即无产阶级。后来形成了工会制度。
15. You can't blame all your problems on your working class background.
    你不能把你所有的问题归咎于你的工人阶级出身。
16. There have always been poor and working classes; and the working class have mostly been poor.
    穷人和劳动阶级一向就有；并且劳动阶级通常都是贫穷的。
17. Nevertheless, there are contradictions between the working class and the peasants.
    但是，工人阶级和农民是有矛盾的。
18. Strike gives expressions to the discontent of the working class with their employers.
    罢工反映了工人阶级对他们雇主的不满。
19. Free trade is a cruel hoax on the middle and working class.
    自由贸易对于中产阶级和工人阶级来说是一个残酷的骗局。
20. The middle classes all thought that the working class was inferior.
    中产阶级都认为工人阶级是低等的。
21. The government has been criticized because of its neglect of working class areas.
    政府因为对工人阶级居住地区不重视而受到了批评。
22. They are the vanguards of the working class.
    他们是工人阶级的先锋队。
23. After liberation, the working class turned over to be the leading class in our nation.
    解放后，工人阶级翻身做了主人，成为我们国家的领导阶级。
24. Differences of age and sex have no longer any distinctive social validity for the working class.
    对工人阶级来说，性别和年龄的差别再没有什么社会意义了。
25. The Party soon acquired great influence among the working class.
    不久党在工人队阶级中间就有了很大影响。
26. He openly betrayed the working class.
    他公开背叛了工人阶级。
27. Finally she betrayed the interest of the working class.
    最后，她出卖了工人阶级的利益。
28. The other was that China's intellectuals had become part of the working class.
    一句叫做中国的知识分子已经成为工人阶级的一部分。
29. The first is internal, that is, the contradiction between the working class and the bourgeoisie.
    第一种是国内的，即工人阶级和资产阶级的矛盾。
30. I have said that intellectuals are part of the working class.
    我说过，知识分子是工人阶级的一部分。

noun

1. a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
   1. there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field

   Synonym:    laborlabourproletariat