八十年代初,在如今正分崩离析的布罗德沃特农场(Broadwater Farm)的社会底层,一群年轻人组成了托特纳姆曼德姆帮派(TottenhamMandem),并开始以贩卖毒品和街头抢劫赚大钱。
By the early Eighties, the youths of the crumbling Broadwater Farm estate had formed the Tottenham Mandem and were starting to make serious money from selling drugs and carrying out street robberies.
这个社会里仅有的那一点点人性、道德与良心却偏偏残存在社会底层的劳苦大众那里。
The precious humanity, moral, and conscience unexpectedly remained in the toiling people who lived at the bottom of the society.
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.
美国人过去常说,在他们国家,一个人可以从社会底层升到最高最高的地位,亚伯拉罕·林肯就是这句话最有名的实例。
Abraham Lincoln is the most famous instance of the claim that Americans often made that in their country a man may rise from the lowest to the highest position.
美国人过去常说,在他们国家,一个人可以从社会底层升到最高最高的地位,亚伯拉罕·林肯就是这句话最有名的实例。
Abraham Lincoln is the most famous instance of the claim that Americans often made that in their country a man may rise from the lowest to the highest position.
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