| 单词 | stratified |
| 释义 | stratified (once / 6589 pages) adj Use the adjective stratified to describe something with many layers, either physically (like the layers of your skin) or socially (a kingdom with the king at the top and peasants at the bottom). If you’ve ever studied geology, you’ve heard about strata: layers of sand, clay, and rock spread out one on top of the other. A lot of things can be described like that. The Amazon jungle is stratified — with massive trees up high and shrubbery below. The division between rich and poor people is an example of a stratified society. And when you spread peanut butter onto bread, and then add jelly on top of that, well, sure, that’s a stratified sandwich. WORD FAMILYstratified: unstratified+/interstratify: interstratified/stratification: stratifications/stratify: interstratify, stratification, stratified, stratifies, stratifying/stratum: strata, stratify, stratums, substratum, superstratum/substratum: substratums USAGE EXAMPLESIn “Folding Beijing,” you portray a deeply stratified society in which even mingling among economic classes is forbidden. New York Times(Nov 29, 2016) The project has rekindled debate in this intensely stratified city over who has the right to its shrinking green spaces and shores. Seattle Times(Nov 24, 2016) An unfolding transformation from the socially stratified dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz to an egalitarian socialist ideal would be visualized — and sanctified — in magnificent civic paintings. Los Angeles Times(Nov 23, 2016) 1adj deposited or arranged in horizontal layers stratified rock Syn|Ant bedded foliaceous, foliate, foliated (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata laminal, laminararranged in or consisting of laminae layered, superimposedwith one layer on top of another sheetlikeresembling a sheet unstratified not deposited in layers 2adj (used of society) socially hierarchical American society is becoming increasingly stratified Syn class-conscious hierarchal, hierarchic, hierarchical classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers 3adj arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks stratified areas of the distribution Syn graded, ranked hierarchal, hierarchic, hierarchical classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers |
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