不过，一代复一代，关女士的子女和孙辈们攀爬上了更高的教育阶梯，并因为自己的学业而收获了物质果实。

Generation by generation, though, Guan's children and grandchildren climbed higher up the educational ladder, and as they climbed they gathered the material fruit that came of their learning.

youdao

美国的教育体制不再是通往机遇的阶梯，而是一个将不平等代代相传的体系。

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequality from one generation to the next.

youdao

美国社会阶级不像欧洲国家那样固定，加上公共教育的普及，使沿着社会阶梯向上流动成为可能。

Unlike European countries, the social classes in America is not so stable. Further more, with the advocation of public education, movements upwards along the social ladder have become possible.

youdao