在我们国家，他们是领导阶级。

They are the leading class in our country.

youdao

更糟糕的是，这种不平等似乎并没有反应出一个精英领导阶级，不论天才们是从那个阶级自我奋斗成长的。

Making matters worse, such inequality does not appear to reflect a meritocracy in which the talented thrive whatever their origins.

youdao

他们希望他们选出来的领导人现在能做些事情创造就业并为中产阶级重建安宁。

And they want action from their elected leaders to create jobs and restore some security for the middle class right now.

youdao

In the overall attitude of the planter class and the leadership class of the American South by the 1840s and 1850s, some were born to rule and some born to be ruled.

美国南方的19世纪40年代和50年代时,在普遍的种植园主阶级观念,和领导阶级观念中,有些人天生是统治者,有些人天生是被统治者

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选