Question of the Day #1307

Different theorists may have different ideas about where MedBeds came from...but nearly all MedBedders agree that "The Elites" are hiding the technology from us proles, hoarding all the youth and health for themselves.

From the 5th paragraph of this article at Lifehacker.

  上記の文で、proleの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "prole" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

【形・名】
〈侮蔑的〉プロレタリア階級の（人）◆可算◆【語源】proletarian

   

Answer

According to Dictionary.com:

Informal

1. a member of the proletariat.
2. a person who performs routine tasks in a society.

 

Examples

1. In the Roman Empire, the games at the Circus Maximus were an amusement and a distraction, a token to the proles as a substitute for being able to exercise any political power. - From Salon
2. Last year gave us “The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe” with Eddie Marsan as an angry prole who chose to paddle away from society. - From New York Times
3. Nicky Whelan, as the sheriff, is like a prole Angelina Jolie, and the hulking actors who play the prisoners, like Mike Ferguson and Randall J. Bacon, turn them into convincing hardened sinners. — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 July 2023
4. We had proles working alongside university types as equals.
5. Superior journalists..would think it Victorian and prole to know shorthand. - ‘H. Calvin’, Chosen Instrument x. 132

   

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