在美国历史上，移民曾经有很好的机会跃居社会上层。
In American history, immigrants used to have a good chance to move upward in society.
如今圣何塞贫苦的孩子是否仍有机会踏入社会上层还不得而知。
Whether poor kids in San Jose today still have the chance to move upward is questionable.
这是一座移民城市——该市如今38%的人口为外来人口——移民以及他们的子代在美国经历了显著的向社会上层流动。
This is a city of immigrants 38 percent of the city's population today is foreign-born and immigrants and their children have historically experienced significant upward mobility in America.
这些官员大都来自社会上层。
Officers were drawn largely from the top echelons of society.
这表明社会上层与底层之间的差距比20年前更为显著。
This indicated a much sharper disparity between the top and bottom than existed two decades ago.
苗族习惯法是苗族社会上层建筑的重要组成部分。
Miao customary law is an important component of the social superstructure.
每个捐助者都要利用社会上层人士以确保自身项目的成功，惟恐被别人占先。
Each donor exploits the best people to ensure the success of its own projects, lest another donor exploit them first.
处于社会上层的家庭，通过经济社会资源的优势，为幼儿争取更优越的入学机会。
At the top of the family, they have the opportunity to enroll the superior pre-school through the advantages of economic and social resources.
刑罚是社会上层建筑的一部分，必然决定于与它相适应的经济基础，随着经济基础的变化而发生变化。
As a part of the superstructure, penalty is inevitably defined into economic basis, and changes along with it.
作为一个社会，我们应当特别关注是否大部分美国人都在取得进步而不是关注社会上层获得的利益有多大。
As a society, we should be far more concerned about whether most Americans are getting ahead than about the size of the gains at the top.
有的人来自社会上层，他们放下架子，接触下层形形色色的当地人，抛开社会禁忌，收集一、两个故事。
Others lower themselves from the upper strata of society to slum it with the colorful locals, tossing aside socially mandated inhibitions and gathering a story or two.
在我们今天看来这些结论并非公允，而对于当时社会上层而言，却是他们所愿意面对和接受的一种结论。
Though they were not the conclusions we viewed as fair, they were the ones the high class liked to face and accept at that time.
首先，从女性在社会分层中的位置来看，处于社会上层女性人数很少，而且大量女性处于社会各阶层的边缘。
First, in view of women's position in social stratification, there are few women in top levels of society and many women are at the edges of various social classes.
隋唐以后，狗肉地位迅速下降，社会上层人士开始拒食狗肉，而下层普通民众也只有在非正式场合才品尝狗肉。
The upper classes began to reject eating the meat of dogs, while the lower classes tasted it only in informal situations after the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
从很大程度上说，存活下来基于人的适应能力，而在该方面，那些处于社会底层的人比社会上层的人更有优势。
Survival is to a great extent based on the ability to adapt, and in this way those on the bottom today have an advantage over those on the top.
法律作为社会上层建筑的重要组成部分，其产生、变更及运行都必定反映着深刻的、丰富的社会、历史、文化内容。
As the important component of social superstructure, the emergence, change, and motion of law must reflect the profound and abundant content of the society history and culture.
我对艺术一窍不通，我没见过什么大人物，我也不进好裁缝铺，这些全与我无缘。我不是出自他所认为的社会上层。
I don't know anything about art, and I haven't met any grand people, and I don't go to a good tailor, and all that, I'm not what he calls out of the top drawer.
事实上，要阻止广大贫困的大众在社会上层集团的财富面前停下来是微不足道的：为什么不把社会上层集团的生活和自由也否认了呢？
Indeed, there is little to stop the vast, impoverished majority from stopping at the elite's wealth; why not deny the elite life and liberty as well?
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.
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.
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