It's the unskilled working class - those failing boys we read about - who have lost out to middle class girls as a result, though it's rarely expressed quite that way.

这就如同一个不成熟的工作班级，那些未及格的男孩子结果被中等水平的女孩子取代，尽管这个比喻很难正确形容实际情况。

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They say that girls are usually more hard-working than boys, but in this class, everyone is hard-working.

人们说女生通常比男生更努力，但是，在这个班里，人人都很努力。

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Esther Peterson, the top-ranking woman in the Kennedy administration, asked an auditorium full of working-class high school girls in Los Angeles how many expected to have a "home and kids and a family, " and the room was full of waving hands.

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