This week, as part of a new series called Living In the Middle, NPR takes a closer look at what it really means to be middle class in the U. S.

这一周，作为一个叫《生活在中产》的新系列中的一部分，NPR深入研究美国的中产阶级到底是什么意思。

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NASA's newest class of astronauts signed up knowing there'd be no U. S. rockets to launch them into space, at least not in the immediate future.

NASA的最新宇航员被告知并不会有美国的火箭送他们进入太空，至少短期内是这样的。

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Bring to class a memo or business letter that you have received since coming to the U. s.

带一份你来美国后收到的一封商业信件或便笺到课堂上。

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Ross and his colleagues offered parallel columns of upper-class (U) speech versus the speech of (non-U) middle-class people trying to attain, or pretend to, upper-class status.

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