In Britain, we talk about three classes: upper class, middle class and working class.

在英国，我们会谈到三个阶级：上层阶级、中产阶级和工人阶级。

A shortage of lifeboats meant that only the upper classes and senior officers would be allowed to board them.

缺少救生艇意味着只有上层阶级和高级军官才能登上救生艇。

This was all part of a very strict set of etiquette that governed the upper class.

——这都是统治上流社会的一套非常严格的礼仪的一部分。

But recently, technology has been driving an explosion in craft goods sales among China's middle and upper classes.

但最近，技术一直在推动中国中上层阶级手工艺品销售的爆炸式增长。

I'm going to talk only about the middle and upper classes, because we are the ones most in denial.

我将只谈论中上层阶级，因为我们是最否认的人。

In 1565, Ivan the Terrible of Russia formed his aprichnina, a secret police designed to scare and murder Russia's upper classes into submission.

1565年，俄国的伊凡四世实行“沙皇禁苑”，一项秘密政策来吓唬和杀害俄国贵族使他们就范。

Romanticisation of work seems to be an especially common practise among " knowledge workers" in the middle and upper classes.

工作浪漫化似乎是中上层“知识工作者” 中特别普遍的做法。

The class structure in Virginia as in most of the southern colonies tended to reflect the sharply defined upper and lower classes found in Great Britain.

跟很多其他的南部殖民地一样弗吉尼亚的阶级斗争也非常激烈这也反应了大不列颠本国的阶级矛盾。

Women Impressionists like Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassat focused on depicting the upper classes of the French Society and they both came from wealthy families themselves.

像 Berthe Morisot 和 Mary Cassat 这样的女性印象派专注于描绘法国社会的上层阶级，她们都来自富裕家庭。

Johnson is usually linked to the British upper middle class because of his family's wealth and his education at Eton College and the University of Oxford.

约翰逊通常与英国中上层阶级联系在一起，因为他的家庭富有，他在伊顿公学(Eton College)和牛津大学(University of Oxford)接受过教育。

The Virginia colony was the first of the southern colonies and possessed the plantation culture typical for the south with its definite upper and lower classes.

弗吉尼亚殖民地是美国南部第一个建立的殖民地，在这里南部的殖民文化体现得非常明显上层阶级和下层阶级的划分明确。

As high-ranking officials grow rich off of bribes, and the tier below them enter an upper middle class, their best bet is with the status quo.

随着高级官员靠贿赂致富， 而他们的下层进入中上阶层，他们最好的选择是维持现状。

If we reject conventional explanations, and view the life of our upper and lower classes as it is, with all its shamelessness, it is only a vast perversity.

如果我们拒绝世俗的解释， 如实看待我们上层社会和下层社会的生活， 厚颜无耻，那就是极大的歪曲。

A new study conducted throughout 718 public elementary schools in Kentucky - finds that earlier school start times are associated with lower performance - but ONLY in students from middle or upper class backgrounds.

对肯塔基州718所公立小学进行的一项研究—发现较早的上学时间与较低的成绩有关—但只限于中学生和高年级的学生们。

In Britain, however, a new drink was introduced from China, and started to become popular, gradually taking over from coffee, although at first it was so expensive that only the upper classes could afford it.

但是在英国，一种新的饮品从中国引入，然后开始流行起来，逐渐取代了咖啡的地位，尽管刚开始的时候它的价格太贵，只有上层阶级才能够买得起。

Mr. EIBaradei is the former head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog but his own campaign for the presidency fails spectacularly because he couldn’t attract support from enough voters beyond the privileged middle and upper classes.

巴拉迪是联合国核观察机构前主席，但由于他没有获得中产和上层阶级之外的选民的支持，他的总统竞选遭到惨败。