middle class

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ˌmiddle ˈclass noun [singular] (also middle classes)

CLASS IN SOCIETYthe social class that includes people who are educated and work in professional jobs, for example teachers or managers 中产阶级 → lower class, upper class, working class

This led to the creation of a new, affluent middle class.

这就促使了一个新的富裕的中产阶级的形成。

Home ownership was once a privilege of the middle classes.

拥有房屋曾经是中产阶层的特权。

n GRAMMAR: Singular or plural verb?

Middle class is usually followed by a singular verb:

Brazil’s middle class has grown in number.

In British English, you can also use a plural verb:

Brazil’s middle class have grown in number.

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middle class• However, a middle class is growing.• Now is when the downsized middle class is looking for protections that unions once provided.• What matters is the expectations of the middle class.

ˌmiddle-ˈclass adjectiveadj

1 CLASS IN SOCIETYtypical of people who are educated and work in professional jobs 中产阶级的

a middle-class family

中产阶级家庭

They lived a comfortable middle-class life.

他们过的是舒适的中产阶级生活。

2. CLASS IN SOCIETYmiddle-class attitudes and ideas are typical of middle-class people and are often concerned with the idea that people should work hard, have a good education, and try to earn enough money to live a comfortable life 〔态度、观念等〕中产阶级特有的〔如应该努力工作，接受良好教育，努力挣钱以过上舒适的生活等〕

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middle-class• The Klan has been trying to recruit a new type of kid: young, middle-class and white.• She knew how much the pay packet meant to that middle-class family.• The audience was mainly middle-class men.• All the great middle-class moral reforms of the age had been achieved at the expense of pleasure and enjoyment.• a middle-class neighborhood• They live in a middle-class neighbourhood on the edge of town.• I should add that these three incidents happened to intelligent, middle-class patients in hospitals with international reputations.• Its members brought the same middle-class standards to black adoptions that they used for white adoptions.• College is more expensive and more critical to middle-class status than in the past.• a middle-class view of life• Most of his patients were middle-class women who suffered from hysteria.• The middle-class YCs had been far more serious at school than Willis' lads.

ˌmiddle ˈclass noun →n GRAMMAR1ˌmiddle-ˈclass adjectiveadj

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