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.
我生命中的大部分时光，我认为是处在底层的中产阶级。
Most of my life, I considered us in the lower middle-class rank.
全球范围内真正的断层线存在于一些国家的社会精英、中产阶级和金字塔底层人们之间，而且这种分化无处不在。
The planet's real fault line is between elites and the middle class in some countries, and the bottom of the pyramid, everywhere.
当学者们研究婚姻时，他们常常把研究重心放在白人身上，然而当研究到非裔美国人时，他们又常常只研究社会较底层的阶级。
When scholars study marriage, they usually focus on white people, yet when they focus on African Americans, they usually study the lower classes.
然而，现在底层80%家庭的收入占整个收入不到一半，中产阶级国家这种景象越来越不符合现实。
But with the bottom 80 percent of households now receiving less than half of total income, that's a vision increasingly at odds with reality.
在底层农村阶级中，巫术的信仰占着主导地位，这种信仰相信中了巫术的孩子会给他们的家庭带来毁灭、浪费、困苦、疾病和死亡。
The belief in witchcraft is predominant amongst the underprivileged rural class, and it holds that child-witches bring destruction, waste, hardship, disease and death to their families.
规则常常发生变化，但总是对男性有益就这样，在一致遵循的状况下在经济上并不成立的规则却完美地存在从上到下，一层层的力量滥用女性和儿童，尤其是贫穷的，就这样处于底层，即使是最一无所有的男人也有人被他凌虐，常常是妇女或者儿童我再也受不了少数人操纵多数人通过性别，收入，种族和阶级的手段。
Women and children, especially the poor, are at the bottom. Even the most destitute of men have someone they can abuse -- a woman or a child.
其次，在1913年以前，那会儿富人根本就不上税，但是底层和中产阶级收入的增长比20世纪快得多。
Second, prior to 1913, the rich paid no income taxes at all; yet, lower- and middle-class living standards rose much faster in the 19th century than in the 20th!
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.
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.
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