1N-COUNT-COLL [with singular or plural verb]中産階級,中産階層(通常指商人、經理、醫生、律師和教師)The middle class or middle classes are the people in a society who are not working class or upper class. Business people, managers, doctors, lawyers, and teachers are usually regarded as middle class. 中産階級,中産階層(通常指商人、經理、醫生、律師和教師)
...the expansion of the middle class in the late 19th century.
19世紀晚期中産階級的壯大
The President may have secured some support from the middle classes.
總統可能已經得到了一些中産階級的支持。
Middle class is also an adjective.
He is rapidly losing the support of blue-collar voters and of middle-class conservatives.
他正在迅速失去藍領選民與中産階級保守派的支持。
All the best revolutionaries have been middle class.
所有最優秀的革命家都來自中産階級。
2ADJ-GRADED (態度等)中産階級的,中産階級特有的 People sometimes describe attitudes as middle class when they think that they are typical of middle class people, for example because they are very conventional or attach too much importance to possessions. (態度等)中産階級的,中産階級特有的 [disapproval]