lower-class

基本解釋

Upper-class participants said 2.1% of incomes should be donated. Lower-class individuals felt that 5.6% was the appropriate slice.
上層社會參與者認為收入的2.1% 應被捐獻, 而下層社會參與者認為5.6%更為合適.
The whole country’s future could look much as the present does for many lower-class African Americans: the mothers pull themselves up, but the men don’t follow.
整個國家的未來可能會像現在下層社會的非洲美國人那樣，女性在努力提升自己生活，而男人卻不上進。
her mind altered。She told her nurses that they were ‘lower-class scum’ and complained that I was ‘marrying the daughter of a New York yid’。
并改變了觀點。她告訴護士：‘他們是低等的賤人’，還抱怨我‘娶了猶太裔紐約人的女兒’”。

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，只有中下階層的女人,才像這樣不遵守深閨的習俗。
普林斯頓公開課 - 人性課程節(jié)選
So lower-class people--now what happens, though, when you have--see your clients, your freedmen, your sons, your daughters, all these are part of this pyramid structure, and they all benefit from a strong paterfamilias, and he benefits by having a strong household and a large household.
所以低社會階級的人。。。情況是。。。,你的被庇護人，自由人，兒子，女兒，都屬于金字塔結構之一，他們都受益于強大的家長，家長也受益于強大家戶。
耶魯公開課 - 新約課程節(jié)選
So the Romans, for example, outlawed volunteer fire departments, in local places, because they were afraid that volunteer fire departments could be a place where locals, especially maybe lower-class locals, could get together and then start gossiping about what they could do to cause trouble for the Romans.
所以羅馬人會，比如，會驅逐當地志愿消防部門，因為他們擔心志愿消防部門,會成為當地人，尤其是下層階級集會的場所，在那謀劃如何,給羅馬人制造麻煩。
耶魯公開課 - 新約課程節(jié)選

Raising tariffs on these goods could harm millions of middle- and lower-class consumers.
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Some people use the lower class or the lower classes to refer to the division of society that they consider to have the lowest social status.
Lower class is also an adjective.