upper classes

Reforms which loosened the stranglehold of the upper classes.

对上层阶级放松束缚的一些改革措施。

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a member of the upper class/upper classes

上流社会人士

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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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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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" The Jesuits cater for the upper classes," said Mr. M'coy.

耶苏会迎合上流社会嘛，麦科伊先生说。

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Harris was not the upper classes.

哈里斯不属于上流社会。

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Some of those citizens, members of the capital's upper classes, are up in arms about the change.

他们中的部分人属于首都的上层阶级。对这一变化，他们竭力反对。

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She regards a ghost as one of the privileges of the upper classes.

她把闹鬼看成是上层阶级的一种特权。

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It is solely by their language that the upper classes nowadays are distinguished.

只有他们才会说当今的上流阶级非常杰出.

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The bottom of the cave is relatively low CO2 concentration, a gradual increase in the middle and upper classes.

洞穴底层CO2浓度相对较低，中上层逐步升高。

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Upper classes tend to borrow for purposes other than consumption, for example, company loans, home improvement loans.

较高层社会的人借钱都不是为了消费，而是为了诸如为公司借款，房屋修缮等目的。

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The Public School system is often seen to be the sacred cow of the upper classes.

公学制常常被看作是上层阶级神圣不可侵犯的事物.

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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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But this way, I had more chances to meet students in upper classes and other freshmen and make many new friends.

但这回，我可以有过多机会去认识同年级以及高年级的同学，结交一些新朋友。

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Families from these upper classes became the nobility or aristocracy.

这些来自上流社会的家族后来就成了贵族阶级。

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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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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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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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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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The reform process is already under way among the urbanized upper classes.

这个转变已经在城镇富裕阶层发生了。

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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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Society is divided into upper, middle and lower classes.

社会分为上层 、 中层和下层阶级.

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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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The Extramarital Love of the Middle and Upper Classes in the British Society during the Restoration

复辟时期英国社会中上层婚外两性关系探析

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