He came from an aspiring working-class background.

他出身于有抱负的工人阶级家庭。

The Warners were from a Jewish working-class background.

沃纳一家人是犹太工人阶级出身。

Working-class children are happier, more independent, complain less and are closer with family members.

工人阶级的孩子更快乐、更独立、抱怨更少，与家人的关系也更亲密。

In the past, the working-class tended to be paid less than middle-class people, such as teachers and doctors.

在过去，包括教师和医生在内的工人阶级的收入往往低于中产阶级。

What is most impressive about the book is the intense and painstaking effort made by the author, Elizabeth Gaskell, to convey the experience of everyday life in working-class homes.

这本书最让人印象深刻的是，作者伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔为描写工人阶级家庭的日常生活，付出了巨大的心血。

As a member of the middle class, Gaskell could hardly help approaching working-class life as an outside observer and a reporter, and the reader of the novel is always conscious of this fact.

作为中产阶级的一员，Gaskell 不得不以旁观者和记者的身份接近工人阶级的生活，而小说的读者也总是意识到这一点。

Old working-class areas of the city are being gentrified.

这个城市工人居住的老城区正在进行改造，以供较高阶层人士居住。

Working-class families feel an even keener sense of disappointment.

工人阶级家庭的失望感更加强烈。

Working-class people seem slowly to be losing the feeling of inferiority they had in the past.

工人阶级似乎正在慢慢地摆脱他们过去所拥有的自卑感。

There is a gap in working-class jobs, but the workers who need those jobs most aren't equipped to do them.

工薪阶层的工作岗位中存在一一个缺口，但是最需要这些工作的工人却不具备相应的工作技能。

Annapolis' working-class watermen brought in crabs in the summer and scraped the paint off wooden vessels in the winter.

安纳波利斯工人阶级夏天运来螃蟹，冬天刮掉木船上的油漆。

The more affluent children end up in college and on the way to the middle class, while working-class children tend to struggle.

更富裕的孩子们最终上了大学，走上了中产阶级的道路，而工薪阶层的孩子们往往会艰难挣扎。

Though a middle-class person may "want to live like common people"， they can never appreciate the reality of a working-class life.

虽然一个中产阶级可能“想要像普通人一样生活”，但他们永远不会领会到工薪阶层生活的真相。

Ideas about social class—whether a person is "working-class" or "middle-class"—are one area in which changes have been extremely slow.

关于社会阶级的观念，判断一个人是“工人阶级”还是“中产阶级”，这是一个极其缓慢的变化过程。

Working-class parents, meanwhile, believe their children will naturally thrive, and give them far greater independence and time for free play.

与此同时，工薪阶层的父母相信他们的孩子会自然而然地茁壮成长，给予他们更多的独立性和自由玩耍的时间。

Mobility was not the dominant working-class strategy for coping with unemployment, nor was assistance from private charities or state agencies.

流动性并不是工人阶级应对失业的主要策略，来自私人慈善机构或国家机构的援助也不是。

Children of educated and upper-middle-class parents turn out to be far more curious, even at early ages, than children of working-class and lower-class families.

比起工人阶级和下层家庭的孩子，受过教育的孩子以及中上层家庭的孩子甚至在很小的时候就更有好奇心。

It deterred luxury consumers who found their expensive clothing more closely associated with working-class youth culture than a prestigious heritage fashion house.

这让奢侈品消费者望而却步，他们发现，与知名的传统时装店相比，自己昂贵的服装与工薪阶层青年文化的联系更为密切。

The magazines accorded some legitimacy to East End working-class theaters that mirrored the format of the fashionable West End theaters serving middle-and upper-class audiences.

杂志给予了伦敦东区工人阶级剧院一些合理性，这些剧院反映了时尚的伦敦西区剧院（为中层和上层观众服务）的设计风格。

His organization looks at life for working-class Americans.

他所在的机构关注美国劳工阶层的生活。

Supermarkets were often welcomed by younger and working-class women.

超级市场经常受年轻而有工作的妇女们所欢迎。

Santa Coloma DE Gramenet is a working-class suburb of Barcelona, Spain.

桑塔克罗玛镇是西班牙巴塞罗那郊区的一个工人居住区。

Working-class consumers are responding to inflation by pursuing higher wages.

工薪阶层消费者则通过寻求涨工资来应对通胀。

Polls also show Obama gaining, in some states, with white working-class voters.

民调也显示，在某些州奥巴马正逐步得到白人劳工阶层选民的支持。

No wonder these guys side with the working-class joes instead of the upper-class elite.

难怪这些家伙会站在工薪阶层一边，而不是站在在上层阶级的精英门那边。

Similar problems afflict working-class whites, but they are more concentrated among blacks.

同样的问题也影响到工薪阶层的白人，但对黑人而言尤为突出。

Belinda was born in Cardiff maternity hospital and her family were industrious working-class people.

贝琳达出生在加的夫妇产医院，她的家人都是工薪阶层。

A quarter of the working class voted for him.

1/4的工人阶级给他投了票。

It's Dickens in part, that stereotype of old London, of the urban working class, but it's not just Dickens. Moby Dick is here too.

这部分是狄更斯的作品，是对老伦敦、城市工人阶级的刻板印象，但这不仅仅是狄更斯的。《白鲸》也有在此。