By keeping women under the household of the men of their original family, the upper-class Romans tried to balance these different households in size and importance.

所以女子保留娘家的家户关系，有助于罗马上层阶级,平衡不同家户的规模及地位。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

So they would have local, sort of higher class, local elites, would bid for the right to collect local taxes, and so the Romans would take the highest bid.

所以他们安排当地人，算是上层阶级，本地精英，竞拍当地收税权，这样罗马总是能获得最高竞价。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

They clearly serve the interests of an upper class.

他们很显然服务于上层阶级的利益。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Or if I can put the case for them slightly anachronistically, these are two sons of the upper bourgeois who feel degraded by the mendacity and hypocrisy of the world they see around them.

或如果我将他们,稍微错置于其它时间，他们是上层中产阶级的两名儿子,他们觉得,因为虚伪和伪善而降尊了,因那充斥着他们周围所见的世界。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

As you move later in their history, you find you can guess that there would be councils that were not purely of nobles but might be of wealthy people, but they would always be a minority and come from the upper class.

随着你们进一步了解希腊的历史,你们能轻易猜想到议会组成人员中,不仅仅只有贵族,还有富人,但他们都是来自上层阶级的少数人

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The kind of myth of the commune was, of course, that from the conservatives' point of view was that these were the furies of hell, the men and the women who rose up to slay their social betters.

有关公社还有一种传说,当然,这是保守派的看法,传说这些人都是来自地狱的怒火,人们揭竿而起去打倒上层社会阶级

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

They did this because they didn't want the upper-class in Rome, who were the elite, they didn't want any one household, or any small group of households, to become too powerful.

因为他们不想罗马的上层阶级，即精英阶层，一户独大。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

The Torah laws-- And also, the laws in those collections very often, despite the prologues' rhetoric that they bring justice to the disadvantaged and so on, many of the laws clearly serve the interests of an upper class. Okay, that's the more important point.

尽管《律法》，和那些材料中的法律，在序言中花言巧语，声称自己为弱势群体,带来正义等等，但很明显很多法律都是为上层阶级的,利益服务，记住，这是一个更重要的观点。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选