| 词汇 | upper-class |
| 释义 | upper class noun[ S, + sing/pl verb ] uk /ˌʌp.ə ˈklɑːs/ us /ˌʌp.ɚ ˈklæs/(alsothe upper classes[ plural ]) C1 a social group consisting of the people who have the highest social rank and who are usually rich: 上流社会；上等阶级；富人阶层 The upper classes usually send their children to expensive private schools.富人阶层一般把孩子送往学费昂贵的私立学校。 Compare lower classold-fashioned middle class working classnoun 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 petit bourgeois petty bourgeois pleb plebby the bottom of the heapidiom the gentry the petite bourgeoisie the upper crust trailer trash underclass ungenteel ungentrified upper-class adjective uk /ˌʌp.əˈklɑːs/ us /ˌʌp.ɚˈklæs/ C1 belonging or relating to a social group consisting of the people who have the highest social rank and who are usually rich: 上流社会的;上等阶级的;富人阶层的 She comes from a very upper-class family.她来自一个非常上层的家庭。 Her French was good but spoken with an upper-class British accent.她的法语很好，但说起话来有英国上层社会的口音。 Her husband was more upper-class than she was.她的丈夫比她更有上流社会的身份。 He is the epitome of an upper-class twit. She grew up in an upper-class neighborhood in Cairo. He was the first member of his family to receive a conventional English upper-class education. 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 petit bourgeois petty bourgeois pleb plebby the bottom of the heapidiom the gentry the petite bourgeoisie the upper crust trailer trash underclass ungenteel ungentrified upper class | American Dictionaryupper class noun us/ˌˈʌp·ər ˈklæs/ the group of people who have the highest position and the most social and economic influence in a society upper class | Business Englishupper class noun[ S ] ECONOMICSukus a social group consisting of the people who have the highest social rank and who are usually rich: The upper classes usually send their children to private schools. Compare lower-class the middle class working-class upper-classadjective She comes from a very upper-class family. Examples of upper classupper class He was not, of course, of the upperclass as the account of his rejection because of his "station" amply demonstrates. She argues that the economic and domestic functions of upperclass families were mutually reinforcing rather than separate. Musical performance was a highly prized skill among the upperclass. A shared upperclass elaboration of seafood as an articulation of refined manners and cultivation, thus, is probably a relatively recent phenomenon. Most of these families belonged to the upperclass. The upperclass constituted 13 per cent of the city's population whereas they represented 62 per cent of the employers. The omission of ceilings and the lack of intermediate partitions also combine to create a spatial continuum unique in the upperclass residence. The present data do not suggest that large parental age differences are associated with lower class, rather than upperclass, births. The upperclass comprises households with substantial income from wealth or entrepreneurial activity, or in which the breadwinner is in managerial or professional employment. At the top, with incomes well above the mean, is an upperclass comprising people with assets or skills that are internationally transferable. She also argues that some upperclass women, especially those of the harem, managed to influence their powerful husbands. Therefore, to render the data more consistent, the data from her upperclass speakers was excluded here. 14. The upperclass set an example for enjoyment of luxury that other classes would emulate. Municipal land ownership stipulated high leases for upperclass villas, thus compensating the low leases for public housing. Sixty-one percent of the families were classified as middle class, 25% as lower class, and 14% as upperclass. See all examples of upper 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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