| 词汇 | middle-class |
| 释义 | middle class noun[ S, + sing/pl verb ] uk /ˌmɪd.əl ˈklɑːs/ us /ˌmɪd.əl ˈklæs/(alsothe middle classes) UK a social group that consists of well-educated people, such as doctors, lawyers, and teachers, who have good jobs and are not poor, but are not very rich: 中产阶级 The upper middle class tend to go into business or the professions, becoming, for example, lawyers, doctors, or accountants.社会地位较高的中产阶级往往会进入商业圈或成为专业人士，如律师、医生或会计。 Compare lower classold-fashioned upper class working classnoun US a social group that consists of ordinary people who usually have good jobs and are neither rich nor very poor: The country's economic problems have affected the middle class most strongly. Class & class-consciousness in general anti-bourgeois anti-snob arriviste bougie gentrification gentrify go/come down in the worldidiom go/come up in the worldidiom petty bourgeois pleb plebby plebeian the bottom of the heapidiom the gentry the petite bourgeoisie the upper crust underclass ungenteel ungentrified upper class middle-class adjective uk /ˌmɪd.əlˈklɑːs/ us /ˌmɪd.əlˈklæs/ UK relating to a social group that consists of well-educated people, such as doctors, lawyers, and teachers, who have good jobs and are not poor, but are not very rich: 中产阶级的 Middle-class children have more advantages.中产阶级的孩子有更多的优势。 US relating to a social group that consists of ordinary people who usually have good jobs and are neither rich nor very poor: 中产阶级的 a middle-class suburb of New York纽约中产阶级郊区 Squash is a middle-class sport. They shop at a middle-class supermarket that sells dozens of different varieties of olives and fresh pasta. Pushy middle-class parents are very good at getting their children into the best schools. We drove from middle-class suburbs to a very poor inner-city area.我们从中产阶级的近郊住宅区驱车前往市中心的贫民区。 He has written a book about middle-class suburbia.他写了一本有关郊区中产阶级生活的书。 They expressed worry about the district's current budget crisis and its vanishing middle-class work force. Class & class-consciousness in general anti-bourgeois anti-snob arriviste bougie gentrification gentrify go/come down in the worldidiom go/come up in the worldidiom petty bourgeois pleb plebby plebeian the bottom of the heapidiom the gentry the petite bourgeoisie the upper crust underclass ungenteel ungentrified upper class middle class | American Dictionarymiddle class noun[ U ] us/ˈmɪd·əl ˈklæs/ social studies the people in a society who are not of high social rank or extremely rich but are not poor the middle class | Business Englishthe middle class noun[ S ] ukus(alsothe middle classes) ECONOMICS the social group that consists of well-educated people, such as doctors, lawyers, and teachers, who are neither very rich nor very poor: lower/upper middle classThe upper middle class tends to go into business or the professions. middle-classadjectiveuk /ˌmɪdl̩ˈklɑːs/ us /ˈmɪdlˈklæs/ Tax subsidies will be granted to help uninsured middle-class families. Comparelower-class upper class working-class Examples of middle classmiddle class That decision places him squarely in the mainstream of scholars who have heretofore explored the middle-class experience. Some of its adherents were middle-class, and others were working-class autodidacts. The 1997 recordings included adults (aged 40 years and over) and adolescents, with equal numbers of middle-class and working-class speakers at each age. There has always been a divide between secure middle-class families and poorer working families and the government's policies are plainly intended to mitigate that divide. But the ultimate failure of middle-class hegemony cannot be explained by isolated examples of disorderly conduct in the libraries. It is unclear why the stability of disorganized attachment tends to be higher in middle-class groups. She argues that novelty and variety were central elements of fashion and did much to drive middle-class consumption. Since the researchers comprised largely middle-class volunteers, they had little understanding of the internal dynamics of working-class communities. These involve critiques of middle-class claims to disinterested universalism of values for veiling class interest and deflecting attention away from class conflict. To point to this fragility in relation to other masculinities is not to deny middle-class men's social power over women or the lower classes. Nowhere were the complex relationships of class and gender more evident than in the middle-class kitchen and dining room. Indeed, failure, particularly in business enterprises, became the common fate for middle-class men in the nineteenth century, hence, the necessity for struggle. But the predominant view was that religion, at least in middle-class women, was an essentially calming in-uence. Outcault was in many ways a continuation of the professional, middle-class flaneur tradition in ethnic typing. The city's middle-class professionals, and those who could afford to emigrate to neighbouring countries, started leaving in their thousands. See all examples of middle class These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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