The city has unrealistic pretensions to world-class status.

该城市不切实际地声称为世界一流城市。

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Of those, 100m live in poverty and have little realistic prospect of attaining middle-class status.

其中的1亿家庭生活贫困，基本上没有晋身中产阶级的现实希望。

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Real Madrid is now renowned for its "Galacticos" -players of world class status, signed at great cost.

此时的皇马还又再现了当年都是有世界级球员组成的“银河舰队”，每一位球员得到了都化了很大一笔转会费。

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The new status symbol of the country's affluent class is no longer jewelry, but expensive mobile phones, Ipods or designer labels.

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This is a sign of my economic status: I don't have to work. It is middle and lower-class women who do not get to observe purdah in this way.

但这恰好是我经济地位的标志：,我不需要工作，只有中下阶层的女人,才像这样不遵守深闺的习俗。

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But if you can like, be stable enough to support the entire family, live on the Upper West Side, it's a class. It's a status symbol.

但如果你能住在上西区，让自己足够稳定，并能养活全家，那就是一种类似阶级一样的社会地位的象征了。

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As a B2B marketing professional, it would be easy to lament this apparent second-class status.

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In some ways, middle-class status in China doesn't confer the same privileges as in the West.

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This should not obscure the fact that part-timers tend to have second-class status.

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