1. If we saw deflation, it would actually be a good thing because the savings and incomes of middle-class Americans would be worth more and prices for food and energy will become cheaper.
2. There was an overwhelming consensus that my number one priority should be to reduce the deficit, even if it meant less of a middle-class tax cut, or giving up on one altogether.
3. If you want to be middle-class now, you have to earn it; you can’t have a state that creates a middleclass as you could 40 years ago.
如果你现在想成为中产阶级，那么你就必须自己争取；你已不再生活在40年前由政府催生中产阶级的国度里。
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4. Perhaps my confusion about where I fit in the middle-class spectrum is because the term middleclass is such an ambiguous one.
可能我对自己处于中产阶级的哪一部分的混淆是由于术语——中产阶级是如此的模糊不清。
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5. Another reason for middleclass "consternation" is that income tells only part of the story: the cost of maintaining a middle-class lifestyle depends heavily on where you live.
6. Macomb does not appear to have middle-class black people, or if it does Scout does not encounter them, but the class distinctions in her white world are glaring.
7. A resumption of capital flight and the depressed mood of middle-class Russians, not least because of corruption, are added warning signs.
资金外逃的复苏和俄罗斯中产阶级的低迷情绪，特别是腐败，这些因素都是新增的警告标志。
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8. There are also a few other things we know will help grow our economy, and give people good jobs that support a middle-class lifestyle.
当然还有其他一些事情将帮助我们实现经济增长，为人民带来好的工作，让大家享受中产阶级的生活方式。
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9. When the children of such families arrive in the US, they are woefully unprepared to compete with their middle-class agemates.
当这样家庭的孩子到了美国后，要想与来自中产阶级的同龄人竞争，其基础极为薄弱。
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10. Middle-class Puritans like John Milton find themselves upholding the authority of Parliament over the authority of King Charles and over the authority of the official Church of England.
11. The main objection to this definition is that it excludes many people in China and India who are recognizably middle-class but earn less than $12 a day.
