• n. 普罗，无产者；工人
• adj. 普罗阶级的，无产阶级的

来自拉丁语proletarius,最低等级公民，来自proles,子孙，后代。因在古罗马时期，这一社会等级的公民免除兵役及税收，他们存在的唯一价值就是向古罗马帝国新开拓的领地移民以开发。具体参照class词源。后被借用于指无产阶级，无产者。

proletarian

proletarian: [17] A Roman citizen of the lowest class was termed a prōlētārius. The only service he was capable of performing for the state was that of producing children, to maintain its population level, and it was this function that gave the prōlētārius his name. For it was derived from prōlēs ‘offspring’, a word based on the same source (*ol- ‘nourish’) as produced English adolescent, alimony, etc.

The abbreviation prole dates back to the late 19th century (George Bernard Shaw is the first writer on record as using it), but it was George Orwell in the 1930s who firmly established the term. The immediate source of proletariat [19] is French prolétariat (in the 19th century it was often anglicized to proletariate). English is also indebted to Latin prōlēs for prolific [17], which comes from the medieval Latin derivative prōlificus ‘producing offspring’.
=> adolescent, alimentary, alimony, prolific

proletarian

1650s (n.) "member of the lowest class;" 1660s (adj.) "of the lowest class of people;" with -ian + Latin proletarius "citizen of the lowest class" (as an adjective, "relating to offspring"), in ancient Rome, propertyless people, exempted from taxes and military service, who served the state only by having children; from proles "offspring, progeny" (see prolific).

1. We must now set about building a proletarian socialist state in Russia.

我们必须现在就开始在俄国建立一个无产阶级社会主义国家.

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2. Dr. Norman Bethune impersonates the spirit of proletarian internationalism.

白求恩医生体现了无产阶级国际主义精神.

来自辞典例句

3. He is the father of proletarian literature.

他是无产阶级文学的奠基人.

来自辞典例句

4. The menu, prepared by White House chef Jon Hill , was anything but proletarian.

白宫厨师乔恩·布尔准备的佳肴无所不有.

来自辞典例句

5. The serf an assured existence, the proletarian has not.

农奴生活有保障, 无产者生活无保障.

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