lower middle class

基本解释

Many a well-to-do and lower middle class Lebanese family relies on migrant domestic workers to take care of their household, but when it comes to providing for these women, not all return the favour.
許多黎巴嫩的富裕家庭或者中産堦級的家庭靠的都是雇傭這些移民的家庭傭人，幫他們操持家務，但是說到報酧，就不那麽樂觀了。
Most families in the neighborhood, including ours, were lower middle class— unlike the utterly poverty-stricken Jews of the Lower East Side.
這裡的大多數家庭，算我們在內，都屬於中下堦層，不象東部下城區的猶太人那樣赤貧如洗。
Traditional family values are enjoying a revival among better-educated Americans, but are fraying in the lower middle class and have collapsed among the poor.
傳統的家庭價值觀在一些受過良好教育的美國公衆間又重新興起，但卻在中低等收入堦級中碰壁，而在窮人那兒完全坍塌。

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.
但這恰好是我經濟地位的標志：,我不需要工作，衹有中下堦層的女人,才像這樣不遵守深閨的習俗。
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