the proletariat
noun /ðə ˌprəʊləˈteəriət/
/ðə ˌprəʊləˈteriət/
[singular + singular or plural verb] (specialist)- (used especially when talking about the past
) the class of ordinary people who earn money by working, especially those who do not own any property尤用以指过去 无产阶级;工人阶级;普罗阶级 - the industrial proletariat
工业无产阶级 - Marx wrote of the class struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.
马克思描写了资产阶级和无产阶级之间的阶级斗争。
词源mid 19th cent.: from French prolétariat, from Latin proletarius (from proles ‘offspring’), denoting a person having no wealth in property, who only served the state by producing offspring. - the industrial proletariat