If you want to be poor or middle class, spend your life buying liabilities.
如果你想变穷或成为中产阶级，只须不断地买人负债。
Financially, with every dollar we get in our hands, we hold the power to choose our future to be rich, poor or middle class.
从财务上来说，我们每挣到一个美元，就得到了一次选择自己的将来是富裕、贫穷还是一般的机会。
"This can give white middle-class children a sense of superiority or privilege," Dr. Adam said.
“这可能会给白人中产阶级儿童一种优越感或特权感。”亚当博士说。
But many middle-class occupations—trucking, financial advice, software engineering—have aroused their interest, or soon will.
但是许多中产阶级的职业，包括卡车运输、金融咨询、软件工程等，已经或者很快会引起他们的兴趣。
Many middle-class occupations—trucking, financial advice, software engineering—have aroused their interest, or soon will.
许多中产阶级的职业，如卡车运输、金融咨询、软件工程已经引起了他们的兴趣，或者很快就会引起他们的兴趣。
Ideas about social class—whether a person is "working-class" or "middle-class"—are one area in which changes have been extremely slow.
关于社会阶级的观念，判断一个人是“工人阶级”还是“中产阶级”，这是一个极其缓慢的变化过程。
Would You Rather Be Middle Class in 2011 or Rich in 1973?
2011年的中层阶级和1973年的富翁，你更愿意当哪种？
So right know it is basically a luxury or a middle class type of garment right now.
所以眼下它基本上属于一种奢侈品，或是中产阶级人群的服装面料。
And, sure enough, every week brings a flood of complaints in the media about the rich getting richer while the incomes of the middle class stagnate or fall.
而且，不出所料的是，媒体上每周都有大量的牢骚，抱怨有钱人越来越有钱而中产阶级的收入没有增加或者减少。
In most countries with Russia's income levels the middle class accounts for half the population or more.
在与俄罗斯收入水平相当的大多数国家里，中产阶级的比重占到了人口总数的一半或一半以上。
For one thing, the report noted, there's little agreement on how many households above or below the midpoint should be included in the standard definition of the middle class.
另外报告中还指出，对于到底有多少家庭应该在中产阶级标准定义以上或以下还是没能达成共识。
This segment of the middle class may lack the gumption to expand their businesses, or perhaps they know something about their prospects that their cheerleaders do not.
中产阶层中的部分人也许缺乏扩大自己经营的进取心，或者，也许他们知道一些旁人并不知道的事情。
Still, many experts say we don't need to raise the tax rate on the middle class; we just need to get rid of some of those despised loopholes (or beloved incentives).
尽管如此，许多专家表示我们不需要提高中产阶层的税率；我们只是要消除一些被忽视的税务漏洞(或者叫被深爱着的税务激励)。
The middle class, already burdened by high unemployment and flat or dropping wages, fights ever more furiously against any additional burdens, including tax increases to support public improvements.
业已承担高失业风险、薪水低迷甚至减薪的中产阶级会更加拼命的反对增加额外压力，即使是为支持公共基础建设而增加税收也不例外。
The best tippers tend to be middle-class or people who have worked for everything they have, not the really wealthy or the kid who inherited the trust fund.
最好的付小费者是中产阶级或者自己发家的人，而不是真正富翁或者继承财产的孩子。
The share of world income taken by the global middle class (on $13-50 a day), at 14%, will remain more or less flat between 2000 and 2030.
全球中产阶级只占了14%，而2000-2030也差不多还保持这个水平。
But many of these people are from families that are profoundly dysfunctional, operating on completely different terms from the rest of society, middle class or poor.
但是当中许多人是来自严重失能的家庭，这些家庭运作在与社会其他中下阶层家庭完全不同的条件之下。
So setting up new companies of any size usually requires resources available only to the rich-who may not be interested-or to the well-off middle class.
所以创办任何规模的新公司都需要只有富人或中产阶级的富人才能获得的资源，但富人又对此不感兴趣。
The house was only middle-class or less; but in that house and its inhabitants, and with Olivier's guidance, Christophe began to find the real soul of France.
房子只是中等阶级水平的或者更低些；但是在这所房子里，通过各种各样的住户和依靠奥里维的指引，克利斯·朵夫才开始发现法国真正的灵魂。
Those who were not at least in the lower-middle class, however, had to dink around a 14.4 modem, or worse: 2400 baud.
这些人都不是中低产阶级，然而，却不得不使用大约14.4调制解调器，或者更差的2400波特。
One of the key aspirations of middle-class families is to provide their children with the good education they'll need to maintain - or exceed - their standard of living when they enter the work force.
中产家庭们一个重要的愿望就是能够为孩子们提供一个良好的教育，使孩子们工作以后能够保持，或者超过目前家庭的生活水平。
The last time the Pew Research Centre asked, in a poll in 2008, 91% of respondents put themselves in the upper-middle, middle or lower-middle class.
在2008年最近的一次民意调查中，美国佩尤研究中心发现91%的被调查者将自己放在中产阶级或中低产阶级的行列。
But even middle-class people who might skate by on savings or a spouse’s income are jarred by an abrupt end to working life and to a secure retirement.
即便是对于可以依靠存款或配偶的收入生活的中产阶级，工作生涯突然结束，安稳的退休生活遭受挑战也无疑是个打击。
Self employment can yield the middle class lifestyle but often requires years of working 60 or more hours a week to do so.
选择自营职业，你可能有机会体验中产阶级的生活方式，但是这往往需要人们为之工作每周60小时以上，也许很多年都将如此度过。
Many are middle-class and middle-aged folk who would never dream of taking a swing at a fellow boozer, but regularly polish off a bottle or two of wine at home with dinner.
许多死者是中产阶级的中年人，他们从没想过自己会变成一个彻头彻尾的酒鬼，通常只是匆忙在家宴上喝光一瓶啤酒和两杯白酒。
Many are middle-class and middle-aged folk who would never dream of taking a swing at a fellow boozer, but regularly polish off a bottle or two of wine at home with dinner.
许多死者是中产阶级的中年人，他们从没想过自己会变成一个彻头彻尾的酒鬼，通常只是匆忙在家宴上喝光一瓶啤酒和两杯白酒。
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