After a nice, middle-class life tied to careers and raising children, with mortgages and car payments, this was a new sense of freedom for us.
在度过一个与职业和养育孩子联系在一起的美好的中产阶级生活后，当然还有抵押贷款和汽车款，对我们来说这是一种新的自由的感觉。
" found that about 83 percent of the 7,313 people interviewed think a typical middle class Chinese needs to have a good and steady income, a house and a car.
的民意调查发现，在7313名调查对象中，约83%的人认为“中产阶层”的典型特征是收入稳定丰厚、有房有车。
Today, demand by middle-class buyers is surging as salaries rise and car prices, driven down by competition, plummet.
今天，收入增加和竞争带来的车价下调更刺激了中产阶级的购车需求。
Business titans do not want to drive the same car that middle-class, first-time buyers are driving.
商界名流不希望和中产阶级或首次买车的人开同一款车。
The empty house, in a middle-class corner of southern California, is two storeys high and boasts a three-car garage. Roses bloom around a kidney-shaped swimming pool, which is green with algae.
在南加州一个中产阶级聚居区，坐落着这样一套双层空置住宅，它带有一个可以停放三辆车的巨大车库，院中有个半环形的游泳池，池边开满了玫瑰，然而池水中却长满了青苔。
It is pretty much an upper-middle-class British colour," says Ho. "Who else could afford to join international car racing?
胡（Ho）先生说，“它可以说是英国中上层社会的流行色，”“其他人谁能有钱参加国际汽车赛呢？
The car has been widely welcomed by the middle class since it was put on the market.
这种汽车一投入市场就受到了中产阶级的广泛欢迎。
Price cuts, and the introduction by foreign car companies of cheaper models (made at their factories in China), also helped put car ownership suddenly within reach of a fast-growing new middle class.
由于汽车大减价以及国外汽车厂商引进廉价车型(由他们在中国的厂家制造)，使得迅速壮大的新型中产阶级突然加入到汽车拥有者的行列。
We will practically put ourselves in the poor house to buy a big house and fancy car just so that we can put our "middle class-ness" on display.
实际上，我们为了买昂贵的汽车而住在差劲的房子里，仅仅为了显示我们是“中产阶级”。
And even that higher income is not enough to embark on the middle-class dream in China of owning a small apartment and subcompact car.
即使这一较高的收入也不足以实现成为中国中产阶级的梦想：拥有一套小的公寓和一辆超小型的轿车。
We'll find out the answer later. So, being middle class involves a number of factors – goodeducation, a good job, sometimes owning your own home and having a number of possessionslike a car or a TV.
良好的教育、一份好工作，有时候还需要拥有一个属于自己的房子，并且有一定数额的财产，比如一辆车或一台电视。
Occurrences that a middle-class family can easily weather, such as a car breakdown, can send a low-income family into crisis.
中产阶级能够应付的那些诸如汽车故障事情能够使低收入家庭陷入危机。
Or at least not the first one, which he believes occurred in the 1940s and '50s, courtesy of his grandmother and the emergence of the car as a middle-class commodity.
第一次出现在四十和五十年代，起因与他的祖母以及中产阶级开始拥有汽车有关。
Or at least not the first one, which he believes occurred in the 1940s and '50s, courtesy of his grandmother and the emergence of the car as a middle-class commodity.
第一次出现在四十和五十年代，起因与他的祖母以及中产阶级开始拥有汽车有关。
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