国家中至少有三种社会阶层，上层阶级（执政），中产阶级（商人，管理者）和下层阶级（农民，工人）。
States had at least three social levels, usually, an upper class of rulers, a middleclass comprised of managers and merchants, and a lower class of crop producers and agricultural laborers.
随着钢琴越来越普及，古典音乐也随之进入了中产阶级的生活，而在此之前，古典音乐只是为上层阶级创作的。
As pianos became more available, they brought classical music, the music which previously had been composed only for the upper classes, into the lives of the middle-class people as well.
在阶级方面，不同类型的工作者，以及中上层阶级和下层阶级之间，都存在着数字鸿沟。
In terms of class, digital divide exists among different types of workers and between the upper and middle classes and the lower class.
近年来，伦敦中上层阶级的年轻人开始使用一些地方口音，以掩盖他们的阶级出身。
In recent years, young upper middle-class people in London, have begun to adopt some regional accents, in order to hide their class origins.
上层阶级是一个民族的过去；中产阶级是它的未来。
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
一种传统中产阶级和30%的社会上层阶级之间的文化裂痕正在增大。这种文化裂痕在40年前并不存在，在20年前已经出现但仍然相对较小。
A cultural chasm-which did not exist 40 years ago and which was still relatively small 20 years ago-has developed between the traditional middle class and the top 30 percent of society.
处在低收入家庭中的孩子，只有九分之一到达收入的上层阶级；一半的富二代却能留在那个阶级里。
Only one child in nine from a low-income background reaches the top income quartile; almost half with parents in the top quartile remain there.
现在的中产阶级比一个世纪前的上层阶级享受到更多的奢侈品，而十九世纪末期并不是一个特别的阴暗年代。
Middle-class Americans still enjoy more luxury than upper-class Americans enjoyed a century earlier, and the fin de siècle was not an especially gloomy time.
一份2010年皮尤(译注：皮尤研究中心)研究报告表明，从衰退开始，典型的中产阶级家庭已经损失了23%的财富，与此相对应的是上层阶级仅损失了12%。
A 2010 Pew study showed that the typical middle-class family had lost 23 percent of its wealth since the recession began, versus just 12 percent in the upper class.
亨利八世(1509年至1547年在位)：16世纪的英国经济繁荣，这使得来自中产阶级的商人和上层阶级的贵族从外貌上难以区分。
Henry VIII (rule 1509-1547 A.D.) : England prospered in the 16th century, and as a result, it became increasingly difficult to tell the merchants from the middle class from the nobility.
尼克松深谙美国中产阶级如何看待国内自我满足的上层阶级。
Nixon understood in his marrow how middle-class Americans felt about the country's self-satisfied elites.
作为中上阶级，他认为爬到上层阶级并不会使他的生活方式改变很多，而放弃电脑和网络则不然。
As a member of the upper middle class, Drum doesn't think a move to the upper class would make that much of a difference in his lifestyle, but giving up computers and the Internet would.
中层阶级的家长们，特别是中上层阶级的家长们，往往不很关心他们的孩子是否顺从，倒是对他们学会自制的能力尤为关注。
Middle-class parents, especially upper-middle- class parents, tend to be less concerned that their children be obedient, and more concerned that their children learn to be self-controlled.
“所有这些小社区将变成为中产阶级、上层阶级与游客服务的地区，”差立说。
"All these small communities will be turned into areas to serve middle-class people, high-class people, tourists," Mr. Chatri said.
第三章阐述中产阶级对上层阶级的影响与同化。
Chapter Three is about the influence exerted on the upper class by the middle class.
美国人普遍相信“美国梦”﹐这个梦的特征是各社会阶级的上下大幅度流动﹐尤其是由下层迁动至上层阶级。
American Dream, characterised by a huge-ranged vertical flow of the social classes, especially from the lower-class to the upper-class, is widely believed among the Americans.
在这一点上，遗传冠军绝不是关键的“上层阶级”，但他们提供一种独特耀目的上层阶级。
At this point, hereditary titles are in no way the key to being "upper class," although they do lend a distinctive panache within the upper class.
“不平等具有一种自然的、必要的效力…使人们的上层阶级物质化，使我们的中层阶级世俗化，使我们的低层阶级残暴化”(马修·阿诺德)。
"Inequality has the natural and necessary effect... Of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class" (Matthew Arnold).
“不平等具有一种自然的、必要的效力…使人们的上层阶级物质化，使我们的中层阶级世俗化，使我们的低层阶级残暴化”(马修·阿诺德)。
"Inequality has the natural and necessary effect... Of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class" (Matthew Arnold).
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