Chen's friends from well-to-do families — "second-generation wealthy," as they're called — have been able to borrow money for hefty down payments; her friends from humbler backgrounds cannot.

陈的来自富裕家庭的朋友，被他们成为富二代，才刚刚支付的起如此高额的费用，而她的出身卑微的朋友是无法做到的。

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The money of the family is in the second generation, and the children are often already overseas-educated, and they, too, own real estate here, " he said."

这些家庭的财富在第二代人的手中，这些孩子们往往已经在海外接受过教育，在这里也拥有房产。

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Where some other investors only see decline and decelerating growth, second-generation money manager Thompson, 35, sees a pack of angels who have only stumbled.

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In the second tier, the hustler class of new-money industrialists produced a first generation of Robber Barons, and then an asymmetric balance of power between bankers and second-generation hustlers who aspired to Robber Baron level fortunes (egged on by Horatio Alger narratives), but ended up as the tame new middle class.

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