The problem with this approach is that each country has a different median income, so the definition of what is middle class shifts from place to place.

这种方法的问题在于每个国家的收入中间值不同，所以中产阶级的定义也就随着地域的不同而有所变化。

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The first decade of the 21st century was not kind to America's middle class-real median household income was 7% lower in 2009 than it was in 2000.

21世纪的前十年对美国的中产阶级来说并不喜气洋洋—2009年的中等家庭收入水平比2000年低了7%。

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A philosophy graduate in the Class of 2010, by the way, stands to earn an average starting salary of forty thousand dollars a year, rising to a lifetime median of seventy-six thousand.

顺便提一下，2010年哲学专业毕业生的平均起薪是4万美元，大约是该专业最高值7.6万美元的一半。

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"We have just come through what was one of the most difficult decades the middle class has ever faced a decade in which median income fell, and our economy lost about as many jobs as it gained,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

One nice thing, by the way -- this is just chance I think -- the median answer in the class was nine, which is spot on, so the median hit this bang on.

顺便提一下,有趣的是,我就是顺便提一嘴,班级中位数也是9,中位数正好也是游戏的答案

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It says there is an equilibrium with only one candidate standing and that candidate would be the median candidate, just like it was in the model we saw on your homework assignment and also in class.

它是指一个候选人参选时只有一个均衡,且那个候选人是中间的候选人,就像在你们的家庭作业,和课堂上见到的模型一样

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This will of course entirely put an end to all of the articles, studies and reports which ask whether the working class, or the median voter, or the middle class, or even the American people, are better off than they were 30 years ago, or 40.

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The council on Monday released a report showing how median rents for middle-class households rose 6.2% since 2001, while the price of condos surged 47% in the same time period.

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Does it allow that a relative handful of people of color will overcome the odds and find middle-class success comparable to the median white family or even better?

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