He comes from an upper-middle class family. Neighbors in this town of 5,000 are saddened by the news.

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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

And in the family law class, we discussed quite a few very interesting and very controversial subjects.

在这堂课上，我们会讨论一些非常有趣又非常有争议的话题。

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In a working-class family, an immigrant working-class family in particular, by the '30s and '40s,a child meant income, a child meant a worker.

在三十和四十年代的工人阶级家庭,特别是外来移民的工人家庭,一个孩子意味着收入增加,意味着增加了一名工人

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

And I would suggest to you that the consumption of home is driven by a certain kind of desire as well, that desire to move up in the American class structure: "the first electric refrigerator in my family."

而我的看法是对家的消耗,也是由一种特定的渴望驱动的，这种渴望上升到美国的阶级结构：,“我们家的第一台电冰箱“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Freud's--Freud was very focused on the family life of the people he interacted with, which is rather upper class Europeans, and these sort of questions would have been difficult for Freud to answer.

弗洛伊德非常关注,与他接触之人的家庭生活，也就是一些欧洲的贵族们，对于这类问题,相信弗洛伊德本人也很难作答。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But if you can like, be stable enough to support the entire family, live on the Upper West Side, it's a class. It's a status symbol.

但如果你能住在上西区，让自己足够稳定，并能养活全家，那就是一种类似阶级一样的社会地位的象征了。

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