People don't tell the truth always - especially worried middle class parents - about how many pickled onion Monster Munch their offspring get through.
人们往往不会说实话，尤其是考虑到中产阶级的父母关于他们的子女吃了多少Monster Munch1牌的盐渍洋葱圈的数据。
There is a competitive streak in this generation of middle-class parents.
这一代中产阶级的父母中有一种竞争的倾向。
"What white middle-class parents do not always understand," she said, "is how much pressure recent immigrants feel to boost their children into the middle class."
她说：“来自中产阶级的白人父母们总是不理解，新移民为了让自己的孩子跻身中产阶级要承担多大的压力。”
"I still grew up in an upper middle-class home with parents who didn't have college degrees," Schneider said.
施耐德说道：“我的父母没有大学文凭，但我仍然成长于一个上层中产阶级的家庭。”
Middle-class and higher-income parents see their children as projects in need of careful cultivation, says Annette Lareau.
安妮特·拉罗说，中产阶级和高收入家庭的父母把他们的孩子视为需要精心培养的项目。
Children of educated and upper-middle-class parents turn out to be far more curious, even at early ages, than children of working class and lower class families.
受过教育的孩子以及中上层家庭的孩子甚至在很小的时候就比工人阶级和下层家庭的孩子更有好奇心。
The terms are necessary as a SOP to middle-class parents concerned that their children are not being stretched enough.
作为讨好那些担心他们的孩子还不够努力的中产阶级家长的工具，这两个词是必要的。
Sceptics may feel this is a learning disability too far — another chance for middle-class parents to classify little Johnny as different, rather than thick.
对此持怀疑态度的人认为这只是一种学习障碍，对于中产阶级家长来说如此将自己的孩子归为异类显得有些言过其实，更不用说是归为一种疾病了。
As girls, they may have grown up in middle-class families and seen their parents drink regularly.
在未成年时，她们成长于中产阶级家庭，目睹她们的父母习惯性地喝一点酒。
This is less true of middle-class students whose parents drag them off to summer classes or make them read books.
而对中产阶级的孩子情况又有所不同，因为他们的父母会把孩子送去参加暑假班或者让他们读书，而贫困家庭的孩子们与他们相比阅读水平就会落后两个月。
Retail employment domestic employment (maids housekeeping yard work landscaping) never provided a middle class lifestyle unless one worked multiple full time jobs say and both parents did so.
对于从事零售业工作或服务业工作（如女佣、家政、庭院清理、景观美化等）的家庭来说，除非一人同时承担多份全职工作，甚至夫妻双方均兼任多份工作，才有可能过上中产阶级的生活方式。
They were married in 1933, but Dagwood's parents disapproved of Blondie and disinherited him, forcing him to go to work and live a middle class life.
他们于1933年结婚，但是大梧的父母对勃朗黛并不满意，剥夺了大梧的财产继承权，迫使他不得不出去工作，去过中等阶级的生活。
I really enjoyed those classes and the time we spent with the other expectant parents, who were mostly middle-class working people just as excited as we were.
我很喜欢我上的那些课程，与其他一些准父母在一起相处得也很开心。他们都是中产阶层的在职人员，他们和我们一样兴奋。
Middle-class parents bought full Halloween getups at mass-market stores for the family.
中产家庭的父母会在大众商店为全家购买万圣节套装。
What's more, anyone raised by middle-class parents was almost equally likely to move down a rung on the socioeconomic ladder as to move up.
除此之外，中产阶级家庭的孩子，向上一个阶层攀升的可能性与下降一个阶层的可能性几乎相同。
Research also suggests that middle- and working-class parents approach child-rearing in different ways.
研究还表明，中产阶级和蓝领阶级抚养孩子的方法不同。
Parents worked to enable their children to go class-crawling so as to get as close to the middle class as they could.
父母必须靠工作，供孩子去爬社会阶梯，从而尽量接近中产阶级。
I grew up in Montreal and went to an upper-middle-class Jewish day school where kids had parents who maybe owned a carpet store or maybe were dentists.
我在蒙特利尔长大，并进入了一所为中上阶层提供教育的犹太日制学校。
The parents who recorded themselves represented a socioeconomic mix: a third each were low-income, middle-income and upper-middle-class or higher.
参与录音者来自于各个阶层：1/3低收入，1/3中产，1/3上层阶层。
I had the "right" accent, respectable middle - class parents in court, reliable witnesses, and I could obviously afford a very good solicitor.
我有“纯正”的口音，体面的中产阶级的双亲到庭作证，有可靠的证人，还有，我显然请得起一名很好的律师。
Middle class kids? Their parents urged them to be proactive, even to interrupt their teachers for help.
那中产阶级的孩子们呢？他们的家长敦促他们要积极主动，甚至为了求助打断老师。
Middle-class parents, especially upper-middle- class parents, tend to be less concerned that their children be obedient, and more concerned that their children learn to be self-controlled.
中层阶级的家长们，特别是中上层阶级的家长们，往往不很关心他们的孩子是否顺从，倒是对他们学会自制的能力尤为关注。
He felt that, single-minded and self-sacrificing as his parents were, there yet existed certain latent prejudices of theirs, as middle-class people, which it would require some tact to overcome.
他总觉得，虽然他的父母心地单纯，有自我牺牲的精神，但是他们作为中产阶级的人，心中不免潜藏着某些偏见，这需要用点儿机智才能克服。
He felt that, single-minded and self-sacrificing as his parents were, there yet existed certain latent prejudices of theirs, as middle-class people, which it would require some tact to overcome.
他总觉得，虽然他的父母心地单纯，有自我牺牲的精神，但是他们作为中产阶级的人，心中不免潜藏着某些偏见，这需要用点儿机智才能克服。
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