Republicans blithely shipped jobs for lower-middle-class Americans off to India.
共和党人还轻率地将下层中产阶级的工作机会转移至印度,公司的利润上升了———很好!
My parents are lower-middle-class white hippies and all my friends were Chinese.
我父母是中低层的白人嬉皮士,而且我的朋友都是华人。
Mine was the grayish childhood of a lower-middle-class family, spent in a village in obscure corner.
我的童年是中下层家庭的灰色童年,在乡村暗淡的一隅中度过。
Children of educated and upper-middle-class parents turn out to be far more curious, even at early ages, than children of working-class and lower-class families.
比起工人阶级和下层家庭的孩子,受过教育的孩子以及中上层家庭的孩子甚至在很小的时候就更有好奇心。
Children of educated and upper-middle-class parents turn out to be far more curious, even at early ages, than children of working class and lower class families.
受过教育的孩子以及中上层家庭的孩子甚至在很小的时候就比工人阶级和下层家庭的孩子更有好奇心。
In terms of class, digital divide exists among different types of workers and between the upper and middle classes and the lower class.
在阶级方面,不同类型的工作者,以及中上层阶级和下层阶级之间,都存在着数字鸿沟。
Most of my life, I considered us in the lower middle-class rank.
我生命中的大部分时光,我认为是处在底层的中产阶级。
To me, that's maybe lower end of the middle class, but it's better than 98 percent of the people in the world.
对于我来说,这可能是中产阶级的下层水平吧,但这要比世界98%其他人的生活要好多了。
That, he predicts, will lead to crushing taxes on middle-class Americans, a lower standard of living and higher unemployment.
他因此预测,那样将会导致美国中薪阶层承担巨额的税收,生活水平降低,失业率升高。
The last time the Pew Research Centre asked, in a poll in 2008, 91% of respondents put themselves in the upper-middle, middle or lower-middle class.
在2008年最近的一次民意调查中,美国佩尤研究中心发现91%的被调查者将自己放在中产阶级或中低产阶级的行列。
A society's middle class may be the ultimate barometer for health, but how a society treats its lower class is a better indicator of overall virtue.
一个社会的中产阶级也许是整个社会状况的晴雨表,但一个社会如何对待它的底层民众才是衡量制度好坏的一个更好的指标。
For the majority of lower - to upper-middle-class children of my generation raised in the US, the means to a sufficient standard of living were fairly easily within reach.
在美国,对于我这一代的多数人来说,不管是底层、中产阶层还是上流阶层的子弟,要达到宽裕的生活水准相对而言较为轻松。
Many a well-to-do and lower middle class Lebanese family relies on migrant domestic workers to take care of their household, but when it comes to providing for these women, not all return the favour.
许多黎巴嫩的富裕家庭或者中产阶级的家庭靠的都是雇佣这些移民的家庭佣人,帮他们操持家务,但是说到报酬,就不那么乐观了。
Those who were not at least in the lower-middle class, however, had to dink around a 14.4 modem, or worse: 2400 baud.
这些人都不是中低产阶级,然而,却不得不使用大约14.4调制解调器,或者更差的2400波特。
Second, prior to 1913, the rich paid no income taxes at all; yet, lower- and middle-class living standards rose much faster in the 19th century than in the 20th!
其次,在1913年以前,那会儿富人根本就不上税,但是底层和中产阶级收入的增长比20世纪快得多。
In recent decades certain high-end occupation incomes grew rapidly, while wages for lower-income and middle-class workers stagnated.
近几十年来,高收入和中产阶级的收入停滞不前,结束了当普遍工资低时,他们收入的快速增长时期。
"We are starting to lay steps so that the poorest begin to rise up to the lower-middle class and then to the middle-middle class," he says.
“我们开始为贫苦人民铺路,让他们有机会提升为中低阶级,然后再提升为中层阶级,”他说道。
Tens of millions of Latin Americans have climbed out of poverty and joined a swelling lower-middle class.
上千万拉美人走出贫困,称为了正在壮大的次中产阶级的一员。
The first decade of the 21st century was not kind to America's middle class-real median household income was 7% lower in 2009 than it was in 2000.
21世纪的前十年对美国的中产阶级来说并不喜气洋洋—2009年的中等家庭收入水平比2000年低了7%。
In that era you also had your upper-middle class and your lower-upper class and off on the side were the collar classes, white and blue.
在那个时代,中产阶级也有上部下部之分。此外,也可以分为白领阶级和蓝领阶级。
Songjiang New town will be out of reach for many of the lower - and middle-class Shanghai residents whose housing woes, these satellite towns were originally intended to address.
松江新城对住房困难的中低阶层上海市民来说可望不可及,而这正是建造卫星城的初衷。
For now, the poor and lower-middle class together account for 75% of total spending.
目前,穷人和中低阶层占消费总数的75%。
Right now, because of loopholes and shelters in the tax code, a quarter of all millionaires pay lower tax rates than millions of middle-class households.
如今,由于税法的缺陷和保护规定,四分之一的百万富翁享有比数百万中产阶层家庭要低的税率。
War is old men, in order to protect their properties, sending young men or rich old men, in order to protect their properties, sending middle-class and lower-class young men off to die.
战争是老年人为了保卫他们的财产把年轻人,或者是上流阶层的老年人为了保卫他们的财产把中产阶层与低产阶层的年轻人送向死亡。
In both these countries a new lower-middle class is emerging from poverty.
在这两个国家中,一个新的中低阶层正从贫穷中崛起。
However, many middle - and lower-class people broadly agree with his views.
不过,很多中下层民众的广泛认同他的看法。
However, many middle - and lower-class people broadly agree with his views.
不过,很多中下层民众的广泛认同他的看法。
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