During the past generation, the American middle-class family that once could count on hard work and fair play to keep itself financially secure had been transformed by economic risk and new realities.

在过去的十几年里，美国那些曾经可以依靠辛勤劳动和公平条件维持稳定收入的中产阶层家庭的生活被经济风险和新现实改变了。

Now a pink slip, a bad diagnosis, or a disappearing spouse can reduce a family from solidly middle class to newly poor in a few months.

如今，一份解雇通知书、一个不利的诊断结果或者配偶的去世都可能在几个月之内将一个家庭从稳定的中产阶层家庭降格成为一个新贫困家庭。

Newly affluent parents in China have helped Lego recover.

中国新富阶层家长帮助乐高重新辉煌起来。

“Sometimes, ” he said at his inaugural press conference, “stirring vested interests may be more difficult than stirring the soul”.

在其就职新闻发布会上，李说：“有，触动特权阶层甚至比触动灵魂还要难”。

He warned that " the original social leveller" , the education system, may now " perpetuate intergenerational class stratification" .

他警告说，“原先的社会平衡器”——教育系统，现在反而固化了代际的阶层分化。

There is a gap in working-class jobs, but the workers who need those jobs most aren't equipped to do them.

不同的工薪阶层的工作是有差距的，但最需要这些工作的工人却没有能力去做好。

And the son of a middle class doctor. -Upper middle class.

其父还是个中产医生。-是中上阶层。

He believed that football could positively channel nationalism, provide healing and relieve the moral and physical suffering of the poor - but only if it was accessible to all social classes.

朱尔斯深信，足球能够激发国民精神，抚慰贫穷者身体和心灵的伤痛。但有一个前提条件就是所有社会阶层都可以接触足球。

The working stiff can't win in this country, am I right? - Not necessarily.

在这个国家，工薪阶层是赢不了的，对吗？- 不一定。

Those flags identified a knight's rank, social class, land, or noble titles.

这些旗帜表明了一个骑士的等级、社会阶层、土地或贵族头衔。

The country cannot continue with that system and with this political class.

伊拉克不能再继续这一体系，也不能继续由这一政治阶层领导。

Here, all kinds of people can meet.

在这里，各个阶层的人都能够找到栖身之地。

At least the wealthy classes had time for leisure.

至少富裕阶层有间休闲。

Only commoners have only one or two given names; the ruling classes have at least four. Just make sure they’re regal enough for a royal wedding.

平民只有两个名字，而统治阶层至少有四个。确保你挑选的名字具有王者风范，适合皇室婚礼。

In a nonofficial nationwide " bride price" ranking in 2022, East China's Jiangxi Province went to the top with 380,000 yuan, not including a car or an apartment, which is really a whopping price for ordinary wage earners.

在一项非官方出具的2022年全国“彩礼”排名中，中国东部江西省以38万元的彩礼排名一，这还不包括一辆车和一套房子，这对普通工薪阶层来说确实是一个高昂的价格。

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

如果一个人违反传统实际上是他这一阶层人的常规，那他在世人面前作出违反传统的事倒也不困难。

The elites of our society have rejected superhero films.

我们社会的精英阶层拒绝超级英雄电影。

On the other hand, interests are not evenly shared by every stratum of society.

另一方面，在发达国家内部和发展中国家内部，社会各阶层的利益分享也不均衡。

Because of the taint of xenophobia, progressives are quick to treat all nostalgia as prejudice, leading them to dismiss the fears of whole sections of society.

由于排外情绪影响，进步派很快对所有的怀旧情绪产生偏见，这会引导他们消除社会各阶层的恐惧。

Even demographics are working against the middle class family, as the odds of having a weak elderly parent - and all the attendant need for physical and financial assistance - have jumped eightfold in just one generation.

甚至人口统计状况也对中产阶层家庭不利，因为有一个体弱、年迈的父母——以及由此而产 生的所有物资和经济援助——就在仅仅一代人的间里增长了8倍。