| 单词 | class |
| 释义 | class I. 1. a. < the ruling class > < the upper and lower classes > < the entrepreneurial class > < these occupational classes are admittedly not internally homogeneous in respect to such class criteria as “income”, “prestige” or “social equality” — Louis Schneider > < class-conscious behavior > — see caste b. < a feeling of class > c. < the classes as opposed to the masses > — usually used in plural d. < the actors were adequate but without real class > e. slang < this hotel certainly has class > or ironic appraisal — see classy 2. a. < education can no longer be separated into courses or classes in half a dozen main subjects > b. < a Spanish class > < a Bible class > c. d. at Brit universities < a First-Class Honours degree > — distinguished from pass e. < donated by the class of 1925 > f. 3. < any class or description of persons — R.B.Taney > < such contraptions are symbolic of a whole class of labor-saving devices — F.L.Allen > as a. < the class Musci includes all the mosses > b. 4. < a class of travel accommodation > < a class A movie > < a class B tuberculosis patient > 5. Synonyms: < as soon as we employ a name to connote attributes, the things … which happen to possess those attributes are constituted ipso facto as a class — J.S.Mill > class sometimes suggests a value judgment as a basis of classification < a libel of the lowest class, both in sentiment and language — T.B.Macaulay > < the class of nominal Christians for whom there might be a chance — R.M.Lovett > category may be interchangeable with class but is sometimes more precise in suggesting classification or grouping on the basis of a certain readily perceived criterion or on a predication, often an explicit one < we cannot approach a work of art with our laws and categories. We have to comprehend the artist's own values — Havelock Ellis > < none of the writings of the fathers of the English Chuch belongs to the category of speculatve philosophy — T.S.Eliot > genus and species, scientific in their suggestion, may differ in that the first may imply a larger, less specific group, the latter a smaller, more specific one < English society, in other words, is … a species of a larger cultural genus — Morris Watnick > < the word “infringement” is almost never used to describe acts of the genus, unfair competition. It is applied only to the species, namely trademark misuse — Beverly W. Pattishall > denomination usually indicates that the group under consideration has been or may be named explicitly and clearly; it is common in religious use < Methodist, Presbyterian, and other denominations > and use with a series of closely related units < denominations of currency > genre refers to a specific, named type; its use is mainly restricted to literature and art < some of his prose poems, a genre … which he invented — Saturday Review > < the larger literary types or genres, such as the drama or novel — Max Lerner & Edwin Mims > predicament is a rather uncommon synonym for category, especially in situations showing a close Aristotelian connection. II. 1. < class wool by grade and staple > 2. < classed as one of the world's greatest men > III. 1. 2. < the class of groups includes all possible mathematical groups > — see category herein 3. < the class of the league > 4. |
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