To attach the preparatory to the senior school these three classes were known officially, on speech days and in reports, as upper, middle, and lower second.

作为高中的预备班，在演讲日和报告中，这三个班被正式称为上、中、下二班。

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What your association is backing is a program which would allow the middle and upper classes to acquire a bomb while poor people will be left defenseless with just handguns.

你的协会所支持的的项目，允许中上层阶级持有炸弹，而穷人除了手枪则手无寸铁。

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So what your association is backing is a program which would allow the middle and upper classes to acquire a bomb while poor people will be left defenseless with just handguns.

所以你的协会支持的是一个允许中上层阶级持有炸弹，而穷人除了手枪则手无寸铁的项目。

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This is essentially the upper middle classes stating that the billionaires should be paying more tax.

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This price barrier makes the coffee shop culture mainly a preserve of the upper middle classes in India.

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Another reason is that the upper middle classes have held their own.

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