统治阶层——大多数从三代前就居于此位——困惑了。

The ruling class, most from three generations ago, are bewildered.

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虽然昌西本人算不上一位高水平的应试者，但他却相信通过考试可以赋予美国精英阶层一种“天然的高贵权”，并为一个有序的，精英治理的社会奠定基础。

A mediocre test-taker himself, Chauncey believed that tests would filter into the US elite ‘a natural aristocracy, ’ and this would be the basis for an orderly and meritocratic society.

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WFP分类系统中的第二阶层包括西非大部，印度次大陆和玻利维亚，在世界最缺粮食的地区中，他们分别排在第五第四和第三位。

A second tier, where between a fifth and a third lack adequate food, includes much of West Africa, the Indian sub-continent and Bolivia.

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