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。

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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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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。

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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

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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

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

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

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