"It's the first film I've done where I've suddenly felt I'm in the middle bracket," he said. "I was always one of the youngest ones, and now I'm not."

“这是我所拍摄的第一部让我突然感到自己已人到中年的电影，”他说，“我一直是那群最年轻的人中间的一个，但现在我不是了。”

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When the researchers divided the teens into five income groups, those in the lowest bracket were 22 percent less likely than the middle bracket to have had a drink in the past 6 months.

当研究人员把这些青少年按照收入的多少分成五个小组，其中最少的一组人数占所有人数的百分之二十二相比于中等人数的那组在过去的6个月内更少饮酒。

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Brazil's middle class is swelling: at the last count there were 97m people in marketing bracket "c", which means they are rich enough to contemplate getting on an aeroplane.

巴西中产阶级逐渐增多：近期统计有9700万人的生活水平达到C类市场，也就是说他们终于有钱可以考虑乘飞机出行。

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While these numbers represent two-fold increases in education spending since 1989, Americans in the middle income bracket have stayed the course, consistently spending around 1% of their expenses on education.

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According to a recent report by the African Development Bank, it is estimated that at least 310 million Africans (about 30% of the population) now fall within the middle-class bracket, which makes for an increased consumer market base demanding to be serviced with new goods, products and services.

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Moreover, the MID is more valuable to itemizing taxpayers in the highest tax bracket than to middle-income taxpayers in lower tax brackets.

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