What is most impressive about the book is the intense and painstaking effort made by the author, Elizabeth Gaskell, to convey the experience of everyday life in working class homes.

这本书最让人印象深刻的是，作者伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔为描写工人阶级家庭的日常生活，付出了艰苦的努力。

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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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Though a middle-class person may "want to live like common people"， they can never appreciate the reality of a working-class life.

虽然一个中产阶级可能“想要像普通人一样生活”，但他们永远不会领会到工薪阶层生活的真相。

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If the land isn't taken up by large oligarchies life slaveholding class--then the small guy has a chance.

如果土地没有被大的垄断方占有,奴隶阶级,弱小的一方就仍会有希望

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I believe this class is " one of the most mind-opening experiences of my life."

我认为这门课是,在我生活中最为开放思维的一段经历了“

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Against the backdrop of Marx's thought pervading - not just Russian life but beginning to pervade Russian government-- against this backdrop, the idea of struggle, as in class struggle, is going to predominate.

马克思的思想不但席卷,俄国普通百姓的生活，并且开始影响俄国政府-,在这样的背景下，人们认为阶级斗争是历史发展的主要推动力。

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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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The most pathetic of these victims are the high-earning slobs who live middle-class life-styles because of the high costs in cities where they must work and the draining expense of things like child care.

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Having a president who belongs to the Harvard elite and the community-organizer streets is not the same as having a president who has lived a long life among middle-class Americans and understands them.

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