second-class citizen

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishsecond-class citizensecond-class citizenUNIMPORTANTsomeone who is made to feel unimportant because of the way people treat them → citizenExamples from the Corpussecond-class citizen• One danger of treating all crime as sickness is that it makes the criminal a second-class citizen.• They want to treat all Arabs as slaves and second-class citizens.• Here we are, second-class citizens in our own country.• Private car-owners have become second-class citizens.• We did not have a chance to mingle with Okinawansthey were considered second-class citizens.• Women were very definitely second-class citizens.• Some speak resentfully of a takeover by the Wessis, with themselves marked out for the role of second-class citizens.• But they remained second-class citizens as the Service restocked itself with young men of the right background from Oxford and Cambridge.

单词	second-class citizen
释义	second-class citizen From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishsecond-class citizensecond-class citizenUNIMPORTANTsomeone who is made to feel unimportant because of the way people treat them → citizenExamples from the Corpussecond-class citizen• One danger of treating all crime as sickness is that it makes the criminal a second-class citizen.• They want to treat all Arabs as slaves and second-class citizens.• Here we are, second-class citizens in our own country.• Private car-owners have become second-class citizens.• We did not have a chance to mingle with Okinawansthey were considered second-class citizens.• Women were very definitely second-class citizens.• Some speak resentfully of a takeover by the Wessis, with themselves marked out for the role of second-class citizens.• But they remained second-class citizens as the Service restocked itself with young men of the right background from Oxford and Cambridge.
随便看	make a clean breast of it/things make a clean breast of things make a comeback make a dash for make a dash for something make a day of it make a dent etc make a detour make a difference make a distinction make a dog's breakfast of make a dogs breakfast of make a dog’s breakfast of something make a drama out of make a drama out of something make a fast buck make a fast/quick buck make a fool of make a fool of somebody make a fool of yourself make a formal complaint make a full etc recovery make a full/good/remarkable etc recovery make a fuss of make a fuss of somebody/something