释义 |
classless, a.|ˈklɑːslɪs, -æ-| Having or belonging to no class. Used esp. of, or pertaining to, a society without distinctions of social class.
1878G. Marriott tr. Emile de Laveleye's Prim. Property 237 Classless wanderers and fugitives. 1931A. L. Rowse Pol. & Younger Generation ix. 230 The objective is the classless state. 1937J. M. Murry Necessity of Pacifism v. 81 The Socialist movement..is based on the conviction of the desirability of a classless society. 1958Oxf. Mail 22 Aug. 5/5, I reckon I'm classless myself. 1959Listener 2 Apr. 610/1 The actors had been schooled..to speak in mercifully classless voices. 1959Times 15 June 11/3 Shoplifting is a relatively ‘classless’ crime. 1959H. Gaitskell in Observer 29 Nov. 6/6 We believe in a ‘classless society’—a society without the snobbery, the privilege or the restrictive social barriers which are still far too prevalent in Britain to-day. |