Prole is a short, rude British word for a working-class person. It is proletarian chopped down to one syllable, and it is not a name workers chose for themselves. You meet it in older books, in class jokes, and in the mouths of people looking down — Orwell’s 1984, with its “proles,” made the word famous. It packs snobbery into a small space: the speaker is sorting human beings by class and finding them lesser. American English barely uses it. Do not use it about real people; it is meant to sting. Though actually, in left-wing or jokey talk some people have tried to wear it with a shrug, the way some groups reclaim a slur, but that is a stretch, and a learner who says it will usually just sound cruel or oddly old-fashioned.

勞動階級的人（英式貶稱；日常幾乎不說）