"What white middle-class parents do not always understand," she said, "is how much pressure recent immigrants feel to boost their children into the middle class."

她说：“来自中产阶级的白人父母们总是不理解，新移民为了让自己的孩子跻身中产阶级要承担多大的压力。”

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In this middle age, the West built a middle class.

在这种中间时代，西方人构建了中产阶级。

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The prosecutors were complacent: they would have the judge on their side, and a jury comprised of people of property, predominantly male, middle aged, middle minded and middle class.

检察官是自满的，他们会站在自己的立场上。而主要由占有一定财产的中年男性组成的陪审团是持中间态度的中产阶级。

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The party opposes his plan to cut taxes for middle class Americans and use of government spending to increase economic activity.

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This is a sign of my economic status: I don't have to work. It is middle and lower-class women who do not get to observe purdah in this way.

但这恰好是我经济地位的标志：,我不需要工作，只有中下阶层的女人,才像这样不遵守深闺的习俗。

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What it does for him is allow him to buy his aunt this symbol of a middle-class American domesticity, and he is a happy participant in this new purchase.

这让他能够给阿姨,买这个美国中产阶级家庭生活的象征物，而他也很高兴能这么做。

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Does it create jobs for middle-class and those trying to join the middle class?

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Manufacturing built the middle class and now we see the middle class dying a slow death.

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White middle-class families are more than twice as likely to own stock as black middle-class families.

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