The upper classes would pay to see lunatics in the asylum, as a form of entertainment.

上层阶级会花钱看精神病院里的疯子们作为一种娱乐项目。

Initially, disposable paper was expensive, and only a privilege for the upper classes.

最初，一次性纸很贵，只有上层阶级才有特权使用。

And when the upper class patrons arrived for the show, they were not thrilled.

上流社会的观众到达剧院的时候 表现很淡定。

The upper classes likely went along since, in those days, being seen as aristocratic was not only unfashionable, it was rather dangerous.

上层阶级可能也会同意，因为在那个时候，被视为贵族不仅不时髦，而且相当危险。

People of the upper class built giant slides made of snow to sled down, just for fun.

上流社会的人们用雪做成的巨大滑梯，用雪橇滑下来，只是为了寻找乐趣。

The upper classes had it easier than the peasants, but everything and everyone was the property of the Grand Prince or later the Tsar.

上层阶级比农民更容易获得财富，但是每个人，每件事都是大公或者是后来的沙皇的财产。

A shortage of lifeboats meant that only the upper classes and senior officers would be allowed to board them.

缺少救生艇意味着只有上层阶级和高级军官才能登上救生艇。

The upper class consists essentially of the capitalists in Marx’s system.

上层阶级基本上由马克思体系中的资本家组成。

They're a series of physical and mental challenges for the academy's freshman or plebes, and a leadership demonstration for the upper class.

对学院的新生和一年级生来说，这是一系列身体和精神上的挑战，也是对上级领导力的诠释。

The two social classes in early Rome were the patricians, which consisted of the upper class and the lower class called the plebeians.

早期罗马社会中有两个社会阶层一个是贵族，包括上层社会，下层社会叫做plebeian。

And unsurprisingly, both of the upper classes favored keeping their privileges.

毫不奇怪，两个上层阶级都赞成保留他们的特权。

Of course, women in the upper class never had to work at all. So they never stopped wearing their corsets and layers of uncomfortable fabric.

当然，上层社会的女性根本就不需要工作，所以她们从未停止穿紧身胸衣和层层不舒服的布料。

You turn to 2010, you 're still at 84 percent for the upper middle class.

翻到 2010 年，上层中产阶级的比例仍然为 84%。

But there’s also a large part of the upper class whose wealth came from work.

但也有很大一部分上层阶级的财富来自工作。

This was all part of a very strict set of etiquette that governed the upper class.

——这都是统治上流社会的一套非常严格的礼仪的一部分。

And once the Europeans left, those local rulers, the upper classes, were seen as illegitimate collaborators.

一旦欧洲人离开，那些当地的统治者，上层阶级，就被视为非法的合作者。

If I'm honest, I just thought it was how the upper classes were with their children.

老实说，我只是觉得上流社会就是这样对待他们的孩子的。

Algernon Moncrieff, a wealthy young man from the upper classes of society, is passing his time playing the piano in his luxurious flat in central London.

阿尔杰农·蒙克利夫，一个上层社会的富裕青年，正在他位于伦敦中心的豪华公寓里弹琴来消磨时光。

Women Impressionists like Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassat focused on depicting the upper classes of the French Society and they both came from wealthy families themselves.

像 Berthe Morisot 和 Mary Cassat 这样的女性印象派专注于描绘法国社会的上层阶级，她们都来自富裕家庭。

Room after room shows the opulence of the upper classes in the age leading up to the Revolution.

一个又一个房间展示了革命前那个时代上层阶级的富裕。