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A group of people or things sorted together because they share something — they belong to the same kind, or stand at the same level. Everything else (a class of students, a social class, first class) is one particular way of sorting people or things into such groups.

可以想成把人或東西「分堆」之後得到的一堆：因為彼此有共同點，就被歸到同一類、同一等。class 的核心畫面，可以想成…更多收起可以想成把人或東西「分堆」之後得到的一堆：因為彼此有共同點，就被歸到同一類、同一等。class 的核心畫面，可以想成這個「同一堆、同一級」——不論那堆是同類的東西、社會上同一階層的人、同一間教室的學生，還是同一艙等的座位，都是「分堆」的某一種具體形式。

原始詞典資料23 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

classnoun/klɑːs/

  • 1

    A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.

    • The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' class.
    • That is one class-A heifer you got there, sonny.
  • 2

    human-sciencessciencessocial-scienceA social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes: upper class, middle class and working class.

    • Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
  • 3

    The division of society into classes.

    • Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.
  • 4

    Admirable behavior; elegance.

    • Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.
  • 5

    educationA group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.

    • The class was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story.
  • 6

    A series of lessons covering a single subject.

    • I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.
  • 7

    A single lesson in a series.

    • Tomorrow's class will cover long division.
  • 8

    A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.

    • The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy.
    • Thirty years ago there were only a few high schools for boys, and in 1957 the first university class consisted of only 50 young men.
另外 9 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    a grade, standard, level of education.

  • 10

    A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.

    • I used to fly business class, but now my company can only afford economy.
    • The City & South London was also the first British passenger railway to offer only one class.
  • 11

    biologynatural-sciencestaxonomyA rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.

    • Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida.
  • 12

    Best of its kind.

    • It is the class of Italian bottled waters.
    • The mark made by Cory a new Central A. U. mark and he appears to be the class of the field in this event.
  • 13

    mathematicssciencesstatisticsA grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.

  • 14

    mathematicssciencesset-theoryA collection of sets definable by a shared property, especially one which is not itself a set (in which case the class is called proper).

    • The class of all sets is not a set.
    • Every set is a class, but classes are not generally sets. A class that is not a set is called a proper class.
  • 15

    governmentmilitarypoliticsA group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.

  • 16

    A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set in terms of its common properties, functions, etc.

    • an abstract base class
  • 17

    One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.

classverb/klɑːs/

  • 1

    To assign to a class; to classify.

    • I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.
    • She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
  • 2

    To be grouped or classed.

    • the genus or family under which it classes
  • 3

    To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.

classadj/klɑːs/

  • 1

    slanggreat; fabulous

    • To talented authors Tim Ash and Brian Reich for introducing me to John Wiley & Sons—a truly class outfit.

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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。