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

As you move later in their history, you find you can guess that there would be councils that were not purely of nobles but might be of wealthy people, but they would always be a minority and come from the upper class.

随着你们进一步了解希腊的历史,你们能轻易猜想到议会组成人员中,不仅仅只有贵族,还有富人,但他们都是来自上层阶级的少数人

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But if you can like, be stable enough to support the entire family, live on the Upper West Side, it's a class. It's a status symbol.

但如果你能住在上西区，让自己足够稳定，并能养活全家，那就是一种类似阶级一样的社会地位的象征了。

上西区的富人 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"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

By keeping women under the household of the men of their original family, the upper-class Romans tried to balance these different households in size and importance.

所以女子保留娘家的家户关系，有助于罗马上层阶级,平衡不同家户的规模及地位。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

And they're--very interesting to read them all in a row. I'll hit some highlights. So if an upper class person, if an aristocrat has destroyed the eye of a member of the aristocracy, they destroy his eye.

连着读这些法条是非常有趣的，下面我来介绍一些,突出的部分，如果上层阶层的人或者说贵族损毁,另一贵族成员的眼睛，则应毁其眼。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Freud's--Freud was very focused on the family life of the people he interacted with, which is rather upper class Europeans, and these sort of questions would have been difficult for Freud to answer.

弗洛伊德非常关注,与他接触之人的家庭生活，也就是一些欧洲的贵族们，对于这类问题,相信弗洛伊德本人也很难作答。

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They clearly serve the interests of an upper class.

他们很显然服务于上层阶级的利益。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The Torah laws-- And also, the laws in those collections very often, despite the prologues' rhetoric that they bring justice to the disadvantaged and so on, many of the laws clearly serve the interests of an upper class. Okay, that's the more important point.

尽管《律法》，和那些材料中的法律，在序言中花言巧语，声称自己为弱势群体,带来正义等等，但很明显很多法律都是为上层阶级的,利益服务，记住，这是一个更重要的观点。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

They did this because they didn't want the upper-class in Rome, who were the elite, they didn't want any one household, or any small group of households, to become too powerful.

因为他们不想罗马的上层阶级，即精英阶层，一户独大。

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