lower-class

常见例句

Upper-class participants said 2.1% of incomes should be donated. Lower-class individuals felt that 5.6% was the appropriate slice.
上层社会参与者认为收入的2.1% 应被捐献, 而下层社会参与者认为5.6%更为合适.
The whole country’s future could look much as the present does for many lower-class African Americans: the mothers pull themselves up, but the men don’t follow.
整个国家的未来可能会像现在下层社会的非洲美国人那样，女性在努力提升自己生活，而男人却不上进。
her mind altered。She told her nurses that they were ‘lower-class scum’ and complained that I was ‘marrying the daughter of a New York yid’。
并改变了观点。她告诉护士：‘他们是低等的贱人’，还抱怨我‘娶了犹太裔纽约人的女儿’”。

This is a sign of my economic status: I don't have to work. It is middle and lower-class women who do not get to observe purdah in this way.
但这恰好是我经济地位的标志：,我不需要工作，只有中下阶层的女人,才像这样不遵守深闺的习俗。
普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选
So lower-class people--now what happens, though, when you have--see your clients, your freedmen, your sons, your daughters, all these are part of this pyramid structure, and they all benefit from a strong paterfamilias, and he benefits by having a strong household and a large household.
所以低社会阶级的人。。。情况是。。。,你的被庇护人，自由人，儿子，女儿，都属于金字塔结构之一，他们都受益于强大的家长，家长也受益于强大家户。
耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选
So the Romans, for example, outlawed volunteer fire departments, in local places, because they were afraid that volunteer fire departments could be a place where locals, especially maybe lower-class locals, could get together and then start gossiping about what they could do to cause trouble for the Romans.
所以罗马人会，比如，会驱逐当地志愿消防部门，因为他们担心志愿消防部门,会成为当地人，尤其是下层阶级集会的场所，在那谋划如何,给罗马人制造麻烦。
耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

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More and more lower-class men can, and do, live off women economically.
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