Many of the British upper classes are no longer very rich.

英国的上流社会许多人已不再富得流油。

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The custom of the British upper classes, civilian and military, has tailed away as that class has shrivelled.

随着英国上层阶级，平民和军人阶层规模的缩小，他们的一些传统也渐渐淡化。

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The famous British " stiff upper lip" has become a thing of the past, according to a survey on Thursday which found Britons are no longer embarrassed to shed a tear or be affectionate in public.

上周四公布的一项调查称，英国人不苟言笑的著名形象如今已成为过去。调查发现，英国人已不再羞于当众落泪或流露感情。

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Though the sometimes indolent ways of the British upper classes served as his muse, his writing gave the impression that he embraced the immense, and in a very real sense, the anti-conservative changes wrought by Thatcherism.

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The indistinct divide between the highest court in the land and the upper house of Parliament has long baffled both British and foreign observers.

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This is important because it would be a global stepping stone to growing the game beyond its upper class tradition, something that has largely happened in the US and most of the current and former British Empire, but not in most of South America and Asia.

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