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.
许多黎巴嫩的富裕家庭或者中产阶级的家庭靠的都是雇佣这些移民的家庭佣人，帮他们操持家务，但是说到报酬，就不那么乐观了。
Most families in the neighborhood, including ours, were lower middle class— unlike the utterly poverty-stricken Jews of the Lower East Side.
这里的大多数家庭，算我们在内，都属于中下阶层，不象东部下城区的犹太人那样赤贫如洗。
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.
传统的家庭价值观在一些受过良好教育的美国公众间又重新兴起，但却在中低等收入阶级中碰壁，而在穷人那儿完全坍塌。

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。
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