A sort of paradigmatic art form of the Middle Ages was stained glass art.

中世纪的一种典型艺术形式是彩色玻璃艺术。

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Perhaps a worthy cause, but not the sort of thing on which one builds a middle class.

这也许是个有价值的事业，但不是建立一个中产阶级所应做的事。

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It was middle class matrons, the sort who dressed up to go shopping, who missed the deference shown by traditional grocers.

打扮得漂漂亮亮出去购物的中产阶级家庭的主妇们，怀念传统杂货店给予的尊重。

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Now, you used to have-- there was a very famous cover of The New Yorker in which you had a map of the United States as seen from New York, and where you had New York, and then you had this sort of large ditch that finally--then, Los Angeles was half a football throw away, and everything in the middle was just sort of desert, basically.

现在,你们曾见过,这是纽约客杂志一张十分有名的封面,这张地图表现的是从纽约的角度看全美国,纽约在这里,这是一条极长的鸿沟,最终,洛杉矶有半个橄榄球场那么远了,图片中心的所有东西基本就是沙漠

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In contrast, for western Europe, the supply of well-educated people from the east may now sputter as the immediate neighbours become the sort of middle-income and relatively elderly countries that need to import workers, not export them.

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The big question at the cheaper end of the market is how to sort out middle-management.

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But joining us onstage is this fellow named Ralph Carney who's famous among musicians for being the guy who plays on all the Tom Waits - sort of the classic Tom Waits middle-period, circus music albums.

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