They are just as much a noble class as the nobility of Britain or Spain.

他们同英国和西班牙贵族是同样的贵族阶层。

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Qingdafu is the largest-scale noble class under the leadership of the king.

卿大夫家族是国君统御之下规模最大的贵族阶层。

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His mother grew up in an upper-middle-class family but was descended from less-than-noble traders and farmers.

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