States had at least three social levels, usually, an upper class of rulers, a middleclass comprised of managers and merchants, and a lower class of crop producers and agricultural laborers.

国家中至少有三种社会阶层，上层阶级（执政），中产阶级（商人，管理者）和下层阶级（农民，工人）。

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On Christmas day, middleclass below, vying to big store buying gifts exchanged between friends.

在圣诞节当天， 中产阶级以下的人， 争往大商店抢购礼物 互赠亲友。

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Thirty percent of them are considered middleclass, and they prefer to buy genuine brand-name products if they are available.

其中三成被视为中产阶级，他们偏向于购买正版品牌的商品，如果这些产品能买到的话。

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He was born in 1911 in the Gamala district of Cairo to a modest, middleclass family.

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And what happened in those suburbs that you earlier mentioned is now spilling over into the middleclass youth and nice urban areas, and the whole youth.

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