一个社会的中产阶级也许是整个社会状况的晴雨表，但一个社会如何对待它的底层民众才是衡量制度好坏的一个更好的指标。
A society's middle class may be the ultimate barometer for health, but how a society treats its lower class is a better indicator of overall virtue.
税收政策中心估计，在奥巴马计划下，底层20%的民众税后会上升5.4%，收入在全美前1%的人群收入会降低8%。
The tax Policy Centre estimates that, under Mr Obama's plan, the after-tax income of the bottom 20% of people would be 5.4% higher while that of the top 1% of people would be 8% lower.
会的确帮到那些底层民众。
外国人有多干少赚的准备，所以他们会压低处于收入底层的民众的工资。
And that because they are prepared to work harder for less pay they will depress the wages of those at the bottom of the pile.
在麦凯恩计划下，底层20%的民众税后收入仅上升0.2%，与此同时，收入前1%人群收入会上升2.2%。
Under Mr McCain's plan, the bottom 20% would see their after-tax incomes rise just 0.2% whereas the top 1% would see theirs rise 2.2%.
多年的斡旋经历也让挪威总结出一条经验，那就是：要让包括底层民众在内的各方都坐下来谈，不要将任何人排除在和平谈判的程序之外。
Yet a consistent principle runs through these efforts: that it is better to sit down with all parties, even those considered pariahs, than to exclude anyone from peace talks.
预算削减、费用攀升和债务负担破坏了这个国家曾经建立的可以使底层民众得以翻身的最好的路径。
Budget cuts, tuition hikes, and debt burdens are undermining the best path to upward mobility that this country ever built.
如果你吸烟，就会沦为狄更斯笔下长有丑陋牙齿的底层民众，他们虐待儿童并且早早地孤独死去。
IF YOU smoke, you will become a gruesome pariah with Dickensian teeth who abuses children and dies early and alone.
这也许是由于奥巴马常常被认为除了与美国最底层的民众外与其他人都没有联系，而希拉里则能够使美国中产阶级引起共鸣。
That may be because Mr Obama often sounds curiously disconnected from the troubles of anyone except America’s very poorest.
底层民众的历史往往被忽略。
The history of the bottom of the public is too often neglected.
重庆是很时尚且很生活化的城市，巍然屹立的高楼大厦始终没有与底层的民众形成对立！
The high-rise buildings still stand tall without the confrontation between the bottom of people!
我们新议程的目标是不让任何一个人掉队，也就是说，对于普通的底层民众，对于没有自己声音、也没有集团为其代言的民众，我们必须向他们伸出援手。
Our new Agenda aims to leave no one behind, which means we must reach those who are rarely seen or heard, and who have no voice or group to speak on their behalf.
《瓦城上空的麦田》这部小说继续并深化了鬼子对底层民众的灵魂苦难的执著书写。
The novel, Wheat Field above Wacheng city, continues and deepens Guizi's persistent writing for the soul suffering of the people in the lowest rung.
这种平等的观念对世界上十有八九的民众而言都很难理解，他们认为地位与权力是值得追求的，哪怕他们自己碰巧身处社会的最底层。
This concept of equality is strange to seven-eighths of the world which views status and authority as desirable, even if they happen to be near the bottom of the social order.
“哑铃公寓”是美国城市化初期的产物，是美国历史上第一次为底层民众设计的标准式廉租公寓，由于楼房外形酷似哑铃而得此名。
Dumbbell was the outcome of American urbanization in earlier times, and was also the first low-rent tenement for low-income city residents in American history.
底层民众则成为权力结构的营造帮凶与被奴役者，他们努力向权势人物靠拢，积极维护乡村等级结构，对自己被奴役的现状却逆来顺受、麻木不觉。
Under the shackles of power, they lose their morality thoroughly. As the accomplices and slaves, mass people try to move toward village authorities, and are enslaved unaware of it.
底层民众则成为权力结构的营造帮凶与被奴役者，他们努力向权势人物靠拢，积极维护乡村等级结构，对自己被奴役的现状却逆来顺受、麻木不觉。
Under the shackles of power, they lose their morality thoroughly. As the accomplices and slaves, mass people try to move toward village authorities, and are enslaved unaware of it.
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