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单词 subaltern
释义
sub·al·tern (sŭb-ôltərn, sŭbəl-tûrn)
n.
1. A person who is lower in position or rank; a subordinate.
2.
a. A person who is marginalized and oppressed by the dominant culture, especially in a colonial context.
b. Such people considered as a group.
3. Chiefly British An officer holding a military rank just below that of captain.
4. Logic A particular proposition that follows from a universal with the same subject, predicate, and quality.

[French subalterne, from Old French, from Late Latin subalternus : Latin sub-, sub- + Latin alternus, alternate (from alter, other; see al-1 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots).]

sub·altern adj.
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