the upper class

基本解釋

A 2010 Pew study showed that the typical middle-class family had lost 23 percent of its wealth since the recession began, versus just 12 percent in the upper class.
一份2010年皮尤（譯注：皮尤研究中心）研究報(bào)告表明，從衰退開始，典型的中產(chǎn)階級(jí)家庭已經(jīng)損失了23%的財(cái)富，與此相對應(yīng)的是上層階級(jí)僅損失了12%。
As a member of the upper middle class, Drum doesn't think a move to the upper class would make that much of a difference in his lifestyle, but giving up computers and the internet would.
作為中上階級(jí)，他認(rèn)為爬到上層階級(jí)并不會(huì)使他的生活方式改變很多，而放棄電腦和網(wǎng)絡(luò)則不然。
The people of the upper class wore usually gowns made out of silk because they were the only ones who were able to, peasants First Communion Dresses being forbidden to wear or posses them even.
上層社會(huì)的人們往往偏愛絲質(zhì)禮服，因?yàn)橹挥兴麄儞碛写朔N特權(quán)，農(nóng)民們則無權(quán)穿戴或擁有此類服裝。

The suspect was born in a tiny northwestern village to an upper-middle class family.
As you move later in their history, you find you can guess that there would be councils that were not purely of nobles but might be of wealthy people, but they would always be a minority and come from the upper class.
隨著你們進(jìn)一步了解希臘的歷史,你們能輕易猜想到議會(huì)組成人員中,不僅僅只有貴族,還有富人,但他們都是來自上層階級(jí)的少數(shù)人
耶魯公開課 - 古希臘歷史簡介課程節(jié)選
By keeping women under the household of the men of their original family, the upper-class Romans tried to balance these different households in size and importance.
所以女子保留娘家的家戶關(guān)系，有助于羅馬上層階級(jí),平衡不同家戶的規(guī)模及地位。
耶魯公開課 - 新約課程節(jié)選

Opponents will argue that the wealth of the upper class should have no effect on the lower classes.
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