"I still grew up in an upper middle-class home with parents who didn't have college degrees," Schneider said.

施耐德说道：“我的父母没有大学文凭，但我仍然成长于一个上层中产阶级的家庭。”

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In recent years, young upper middle-class people in London, have begun to adopt some regional accents, in order to hide their class origins.

近年来，伦敦中上层阶级的年轻人开始使用一些地方口音，以掩盖他们的阶级出身。

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The grand mediocrity of today—everyone being the same in survival and number of offspring—means that natural selection has lost 80% of its power in upper-middle-class India compared to the tribes.

当今人与人在很大程度上的平等——即面对自然淘汰法则人人机会均等，并且连子嗣的数目都一样——意味着和在印度土著部落中的情况相比，印度中上层阶级中已丧失了80%的自然选择中的优势。

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The suspect was born in a tiny northwestern village to an upper-middle class family.

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Upper-middle, I mean upper class, upper-middle class,

中上阶层，我是说中上阶层，

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He comes from an upper-middle class family. Neighbors in this town of 5,000 are saddened by the news.

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The average wealth and education of voters in the Defence area meant that NA-250 was the place where PTI, which appeals to middle-class and upper-middle-class voters fed up with traditional patronage politics, stood its best chance of winning a seat in Karachi, the country's economic capital.

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In Indonesia and the Philippines, 8% to 10% of the people are in the middle-class or upper-class brackets and can afford a cellular phone.

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The work to change that perception has been wildly successful, but now the messaging around breastfeeding tends to be rooted in a middle-to-upper class mindset that fails to relate to low-income communities.

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