middle class

英 [ˌmɪdl ˈklɑːs]

美 [ˌmɪdl ˈklæs]

n.  中产阶级; 中等收入阶层

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牛津词典

noun

• 中产阶级；中等收入阶层
  the social class whose members are neither very rich nor very poor and that includes professional and business people
  1. the upper/lower middle class
     中等偏上 / 偏下收入阶层
  2. the growth of the middle classes
     中产阶级的壮大

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT-COLL 中产阶级，中产阶层(通常指商人、经理、医生、律师和教师)
  The middle classormiddle classesare the people in a society who are not working class or upper class. Business people, managers, doctors, lawyers, and teachers are usually regarded as middle class.
  1. ...the expansion of the middle class in the late 19th century...
     19世纪晚期中产阶级的壮大
  2. The President may have secured some support from the middle classes.
     总统可能已经得到了一些中产阶级的支持。
  3. Middle classis also an adjective.
     
  4. He is rapidly losing the support of blue-collar voters and of middle-class conservatives...
     他正在迅速失去蓝领选民与中产阶级保守派的支持。
  5. All the best revolutionaries have been middle class.
     所有最优秀的革命家都来自中产阶级。
• ADJ-GRADED (态度等)中产阶级的，中产阶级特有的
  People sometimes describe attitudes asmiddle classwhen they think that they are typical of middle class people, for example because they are very conventional or attach too much importance to possessions.
  1. ...a very middle-class upbringing.
     典型的中产阶级家庭教育

英英释义

noun

• the social class between the lower and upper classes
  Synonym:bourgeoisie

双语例句

• The poor and middle class all too often allow the power of money to control them.
  穷人和中产阶级更多地让金钱的力量控制他们。
• I am rated middle class.
  而我又被认为是中产阶级。
• I grew up on the lower end of the middle class.
  我成长在一个中产阶级中的下层。
• He made a study of the position of the middle class in Britain.
  他研究过英国中产阶级的状况。
• He did so by appealing to the modest aspirations of the poor, middle class and university students.
  他的成功主要归功于赢得了穷人，中产阶级和大学生们的青睐。
• China's middle class was born from that day on, was buried on the doomed fate.
  中国的中产阶级从出生那天起，就注定了被埋葬的命运。
• Lower middle class ( shopkeepers and clerical staff etc.).
  中产阶级的下层（店主和全体职员等）。
• Increases in wages, pensions and unemployment benefits have cushioned the impact on the middle class and the poor.
  提高工资、养老金和失业补助缓解了对中产阶级和贫困人口的影响。
• This cut helps the poor and the middle class, who need every break they can get.
  这种减少可帮助那些穷人和中产阶级，他们需要任何可以得到的休息。
• The middle class and poor, what the want is high income.
  中产阶级和穷人说想要的是高收入。