What happened was that the people in the lower orders got looked down on, which weakened their self-esteem.

当时的情况是，身处较低阶级的人受到了蔑视，削弱了他们的自尊。

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Set two tables here, Ellen: one for your master and Miss Isabella, being gentry; the other for Heathcliff and myself, being of the lower orders.

在这儿摆两张桌子吧，艾伦，一张给你主人和伊莎贝拉小姐用，他们是有门第的上等人；另一张给希刺克厉夫和我自己，我们是属于下等阶级的。

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Critics assume that private parents are rich snobs trying to avoid the lower orders, says Anthony Seldon, headmaster of Wellington College, a boarding school.

评论者认为私立学校孩子的父母是设法避免下层社会的富裕的势利之人，一所寄宿学校- - -惠灵顿学院的校长安东尼·塞尔登(Anthony Seldon)如是说。

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Everything, maybe, except to the lower orders of the teaching profession and the massed ranks of elected politicians.

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This was just one of many uprisings of the lower orders in Europe.

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The novels illustrated both the folly of war and the unsung, unregarded heroism of the lower orders, the actual builders of the empire.

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