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

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。

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

中上阶层，我是说中上阶层，

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"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

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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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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You may run into upper-class students, students who are more advanced, you will run into your TA.

你可能会碰上高年级的学生,他们比你的水平要高,当然还有助教

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