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单词 second-class citizenship
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second-class citizenship
d. second-class citizen: a person assigned to an inferior class of citizenship; one deprived of normal civic and legal rights; also in extended and figurative uses. Hence second-class citizenship. Originally U.S.
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1942 Time 6 July 16/3 Finerty..argued that destitute ‘second-class citizens’ like Waller were barred from serving on Virginia juries.
1948 ‘G. Orwell’ Let. 4 Jan. in Coll. Ess. (1968) IV. 401 Zilliacus wrote in demanding what amounts to Fascist legislation and creation of 2nd-class citizens.
1951 I. Shaw Troubled Air xv. 217 Cohen..can't get into an hotel. He tells Levy, ‘..we're second-class citizens in this country.’
1958 J. K. Galbraith Affluent Society ix. 107 We relegate one important class of production to a second-class citizenship.
1965 Austral. Encycl. I. 322/1 These people [sc. convicts] were second-class citizens, well versed in the routines of unorthodox speech.
1972 D. Lessing Golden Notebk. (ed. 2) p. viii Women are second-class citizens, as they are saying energetically and competently in many countries.
1974 Listener 17 Jan. 95/3 To show what the graphic artist (a second-class citizen in the art world) is capable of.
1975 S. Lauder Killing Time on Corvo xvii. 160 Brazil..offered more opportunities to an educated girl than the restrictions, the second-class citizenship, of old-fashioned Portugal.
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