social ladder

基本解釋

Many English novels show a poor main character rising on the economic and social ladder, perhaps because of a good marriage or the discovery of a hidden aristocratic past.
大量英國(guó)小說都講述貧困的主人公在經(jīng)濟(jì)和社會(huì)的階梯上青云直上，或得助于美好的姻緣，或由于不為人知的貴族背景被發(fā)現(xiàn)。
Unlike European countries, the social classes in America is not so stable. Further more, with the advocation of public education, movements upwards along the social ladder have become possible.
美國(guó)社會(huì)階級(jí)不像歐洲國(guó)家那樣固定，加上公共教育的普及，使沿著社會(huì)階梯向上流動(dòng)成為可能。
As impoverished farmers, they knew it promised a comfortable middle-class life and a giant step up the social ladder for their daughter.
作為一個(gè)貧窮的家庭，他們知道考上大學(xué)預(yù)示著他們的女兒將獲得中產(chǎn)階級(jí)的舒適生活，并且在社會(huì)等級(jí)的階梯上跨一大步。

It also offered a leg-up for the rural masses to climb the social ladder.
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Many of these people scrabbled up the social ladder on their own and don't relish the idea of giving their heirs independent means.
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Yet, at the same time, the failure of minorities to get far up the social ladder shows the limits of the French model.
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