The lower classes became a reliable source of labor.

层阶成为了可靠的劳动力来源。

But I look down on him because he is lower class.

可我看不起他 因为他是个次等阶。

No longer would nursing be something for nuns and the lower classes.

护理不再是修女层阶的事情。

We'll sit apart from them, as we're of a lower class!

我不跟他一起坐，因为我层次低！

During this period, the lower classes experienced sordid working and living conditions.

在工业革命期间，较低阶层的在肮葬恶劣的工作生环境。

Thus, Austen never features or gives voice to the lower classes and servants.

因此，奥斯汀从未特意描写过层社仆，亦或是让他有只言片语。

And comedies about unserious middle class and lower class people falling in love.

喜剧必须是关于不严肃的中产阶层阶坠入爱河。

They found that 35 percent of college graduates described themselves as working or lower class.

他发现，35%的大学生认为自己是工薪阶甚至更低的阶。

But now we're seeing these people of other lower working classes that are crossing into Colombia.

而现在，我看到这些层工阶越过边境进入哥伦比亚。

So it could not have started in the lower classes and worked its way up.

所以不可能从底层阶开始，然后逐步向上发展。

We have the lower class, the working class who escape from the city for the freedoms of theatre.

又有一群层劳动者逃离城市而追求戏剧的自由。

Representative Hastings says the high cost of renting would keep middle and lower class from serving in Congress.

代表哈斯特因斯表示租房的高成本将阻碍中产阶及层阶在国中任职。

Most notably, it says here it began in the lower classes and percolated up to the higher classes.

最值得注意的是，这里说的是从层阶开始，一直渗透到较高的阶层。

The lower classes and a handful of crew left behind, had to build their own makeshift raft for 147 people.

层阶少数船员不得不为他自己建造能够容纳147的临时救生艇。

And funnel money toward initiatives that could benefit lower class artists.

并将资金用于可能使底层艺术家受益的计划。

It's a way to put the working person down, the lower classes down.

这是贬低劳动民、贬低层阶的一种方式。

Signs are for the religious, the superstitious and the lower class.

启示是留给虔诚的教徒，迷信者层阶的。

And just as vulnerable to economic downturns, if not more so, is the lower class.

同样容易受到经济衰退影响的是层阶，如果不是更容易的话。

Lower class Americans are blue-collar workers at the bottom of the income distribution.

层美国是处于收入分配底部的蓝领工。

And the lower class also includes many Americans who are living in poverty.

而层阶还包括许多生贫困的美国。