Some people criticize his art for only showing a false or very limited image of America, one that is white and middle-class.

VOA: special.2010.09.20

This is a sign of my economic status: I don't have to work. It is middle and lower-class women who do not get to observe purdah in this way.

但这恰好是我经济地位的标志：,我不需要工作，只有中下阶层的女人,才像这样不遵守深闺的习俗。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Upper-middle, I mean upper class, upper-middle class,

中上阶层，我是说中上阶层，

生活费偏高 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But the president says he will not let health reform be paid for in his words -- "on the backs of middle-class families."

VOA: special.2009.07.25

What it does for him is allow him to buy his aunt this symbol of a middle-class American domesticity, and he is a happy participant in this new purchase.

这让他能够给阿姨,买这个美国中产阶级家庭生活的象征物，而他也很高兴能这么做。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

This writer is best known for his novels about the private lives of small-town, middle class Americans.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

These are middle-class people commissioning paintings of themselves.

这些是中产阶级委托画家为自己画的肖像

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

He spoke before signing an order to create the Task Force on Middle-Class Working Families.

VOA: special.2009.01.31

Middle-class Puritans like John Milton find themselves upholding the authority of Parliament over the authority of King Charles and over the authority of the official Church of England.

中产阶级的清教徒像弥尔顿，发现自己,把议会的职权看得比国王查尔斯的权力要重,甚至比英格兰正式的教会的权力还重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The suspect was born in a tiny northwestern village to an upper-middle class family.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

But they're painting middle-class life in the Netherlands.

他们的画作描绘了荷兰中产阶级的生活

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

And in the northeast, many middle-class people support the Red Shirts.

VOA: special.2010.05.22

First of all, it's not a coincidence that in both England and in the Dutch Republic you had, along with the city-states of Northern Italy, you had the largest percentage of middle-class population that you could find in Europe.

英国和荷兰共和国,以及北意大利的城邦,拥有全欧洲比例最大的中产阶级人群,这是有它的必然性的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

He comes from an upper-middle class family. Neighbors in this town of 5,000 are saddened by the news.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

The Yellow Shirts draw much of their support from middle-class and wealthy Thais, and they consider Mr.Thaksin to have been corrupt and authoritarian.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

"When you compare the purchasing power the foreign purchasing power would be much higher than the middle-class or upper-class purchasing power in Thailand.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

And this is also where you have a major emerging middle-class market,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

But climate change negotiators worry that without quick action, the carbon footprint of countries like India and China will rise dramatically as their fast-growing economies propel millions into the middle class.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

The White House is also promising action to make it a little easier for middle-class students to pay for college,and to provide expanded community services to help families caring for elderly relatives.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

President Obama said the current system has led the country to a breaking point, imposing hardships on middle-class Americans who struggle to pay for health care, who are unable to obtain it.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

That decision brought applause in the courtroom. Madoff's wide-ranging fraud touched banks,charities, middle class people investing for retirement in North and South America and Europe, and even celebrities - including Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12