Passengers traveling in the steerage paid the lowest fares.

坐下等客舱的旅客付最低的票价。

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It was the first time in his life that Martin had travelled first class. On ships at sea he had always been in the forecastle, the steerage, or in the black depths of the coal-hold, passing coal.

这是他马丁·伊登生平第一次坐头等舱，在出海的船上他从来都是在水手舱，在驾驶室，或在锅炉房运煤。

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The first-class cabins are too expensive, second class is stifling and third is in steerage.

一等舱太贵，二等舱太闷，三等舱在近舵处。

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Palmer himself waxes poetic about the Irish Stew and Jig dancing he plans to experience while slumming in the steerage.

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At one point, the smell of laundry drifted into the dining room, a whiff of steerage.

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