the upper classes

The upper classes usually send their children to expensive private schools.

贵族阶层通常把他们的子女送到昂贵的私立学校上学。

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Their political ambitions thwarted, the upper classes turned their energies towards entertaining themselves.

他们的政治雄心受到阻碍，上层阶层将自身能力转向了自我娱乐。

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The upper classes, too, were always expected to leech off their ancestors' capital.

人们也总是期望上层阶级会吃祖先的老本。

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It's an attitude which seems to be confined to the upper classes.

这种观点看来只存在于上层阶级中。

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It's not that the upper classes are cold-hearted. They may just not be as adept at recognizing the cues and signals of suffering because they haven't had to deal with as many obstacles in their lives, she explained.

她解释说：并不是上层社会的人冷酷无情。他们也许只是没能那么快地察觉到他人的苦难，因为他们在自己的生活中从不需要去应对这么多的阻碍。

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In centuries past, the upper classes stayed pale; only laborers, cowboys and farmers sported tans, and they didn't lie out at noon in bikinis.

之前的数百年中，上层阶级都保有白皙的肤色，只有劳工、牛仔和农民会晒成一身古铜色，而且那时他们不会在大中午穿着比基尼躺在户外。

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Advertisements are placed and eagerly read by a wide range of people in the upper classes, mostly in cities.

在上流社会中人们广泛登载并热衷阅读征婚广告，（他们多数居住在大城市里）。

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( British) not characteristic of the upper classes especially in language use.

（英国）没有上流社会的特点，特别是在语言的运用方面。

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How are the upper classes distinguished nowadays?

现在的上流社会到底有多显赫呢？

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Many of the British upper classes are no longer very rich.

英国的上流社会许多人已不再富得流油。

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a member of the upper class/upper classes

上流社会人士

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I had no idea you were of the upper classes.

我完全不知道你是上层人物。我有什么能为您效劳的？

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Policemen are generally held to be courteous, patient, slow-moving, unimaginative, respectful to the upper classes, reasonably sympathetic, incorruptible, rather rigid in their attitudes.

一般人认为警察讲礼貌、有耐心、动作迟缓、没有想象力、尊敬上层阶级、较有同情心、廉洁奉公、态度颇为死板。

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Harris was not the upper classes.

哈里斯不属于上流社会。

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This catalyzed certain members of the upper classes to begin to change the way Christmas was celebrated in America.

这促使上层阶级的某些人开始改变美国圣诞节的庆祝方式。

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Generally speaking, the upper classes don't have a clear idea of the common people's lives.

一般说来，上层阶级并不十分清楚老百姓的生活。

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Informal relationships vary: the upper classes of all ethnic backgrounds mix freely; outside of the elite, social relations tend to remain within ethnic groupings.

非正式的联系变化多样：所有民族的贵族阶层可以自由来往；外面的精英分子，社会关系仍在民族范围内保留着。

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And other commodities: immortality and Hong drug consumption is relatively large proportion of all medicine consumption, and is concentrated in the upper classes of society.

和其他商品相比较：在所有药材消费中，丹药和香药消费所占比重比较大，而且集中于上层社会。

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Now, upward social, educational, and financial mobility, rather than certification of the upper classes, is what American higher education offers to Americans and increasingly to others in the world.

现今美国高等教育为美国人以及越来越多的外国人所带来的是社会、教育和经济地位的提高，而不是作为一种上流社会的标志。

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It is not that religious works were not written in French too for the upper classes;

这不是因为为上层阶级写的宗教作品也不是用法语写的；

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Two thousand years of traditional Chinese society, able to maintain relatively stable, very important reason is that a relatively smooth lower social mechanism of flow to the upper classes of society, every year tens of thousands of students through this path to change their destiny.

中国传统社会之所以两千多年能够保持相对稳定，一个最重要的原因就是有一个比较通畅的下层社会向上层社会流动的机制，每年都会有数以万计的学子通过这条道路改变自己的命运。

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Persons of high social standing considered as a group. What the upper classes affect, the lower at once imitate.

上流社会作为一个整体的上层社会的成员上层社会的人爱好什么，下层社会的人就模仿什么。

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