As a member of the middle class, Gaskell could hardly help approaching working-class life as an outside observer and a reporter, and the reader of the novel is always conscious of this fact.

作为中产阶级的一员，Gaskell 不得不以旁观者和记者的身份接近工人阶级的生活，而小说的读者也总是意识到这一点。

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However, he apparently became bored with his middle-class life and sought to return to a life of crime.

然而他很快对中产阶级的人生感到厌倦，开始争取回到犯罪的道路。

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And there are very real sources of anxiety for those who aspire to a comfortable middle-class life in America.

而事实上，确实有很多人向往着那种舒适的中产阶级生活。

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He said his views were influenced by the many poor and working class people he had met in his life.

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But they're painting middle-class life in the Netherlands.

他们的画作描绘了荷兰中产阶级的生活

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I talked about life is not like a mathematic problem ? with you or in my other class ?

我说过生活不是个数学难题,是跟你们说过？，还是在我另外的课上？

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Too many jobs that provided a steady, stable life, a middle-class life for people, got shipped overseas.

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Today -- today, living a quality middle class life starts, as it always has, with a good-paying job.

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The strongest elements are the descriptions of working-class life and the tender portrayal of maternal and filial love.

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