But this crisis is cementing a class system aboard corporate vessels.

但这场危机正在巩固公司船上的等级制度。

Soane was a working class boy who miraculously rose through the British class system.

索恩生来是工人阶级却奇迹般完成了阶级跃迁。

At that time, Mexico had been a Spanish colony for over a century, leading to a complex and stratified class system.

当时，墨西哥成为西班牙的殖民地已有一个多世纪了，导致了复杂而分层的阶级制度。

When Kipps inherits a fortune from a long-lost grandfather, he has to negotiate the complex rules of the English class system.

当基普斯从一位失散已久的祖父那里继承了一笔财富时，他不得不与英国阶级制度的复杂规则进行谈判。

Because it challenged the whole class system, that people are born into a certain place and cannot and should not be moved.

因为它挑战了整个阶级体系人生来就有阶级，不能也不应该被改变。

The class system is slowly disappearing.

【class】班级制正在慢慢消失。

Housed in a restored Edwardian pump house is The People’s History Museum, which celebrates those who challenged Britain’s rigid political and class systems.

修復後的愛德華式抽水房 如今是人民歷史博物館 (People’s History Museum)，表彰当时对英国僵化的政治 与阶级制度挑战的勇气。

People accepted the class system as part of the natural order of things.

【order】人们把社会等级制度看成天经地义的事。

In contrast with caste systems, class systems are the archetypal open systems.

与种姓制度相比，阶级制度是典型的开放系统。

Even though the tribe operated as a large family, the class system still led to differentiation amongst the people.

尽管部落是一个大家庭，但阶级制度仍然导致了人们之间的分化。

Not every society is strictly a caste system or a class system.

并非每个社会都是严格的种姓制度或阶级制度。

Because a meritocratic class system is supposed to be open, it’s easy to ignore the structural factors that influence class standing.

因为精英阶层制度应该是开放的，所以很容易忽略影响阶级地位的结构性因素。

The cracks in his narrative eventually draw the reader's attention to the under-acknowledged failings of the culture and class system he inhabits.

他叙述中的裂缝最终将读者的注意力吸引到他所居住的文化和阶级制度中未被充分承认的缺陷上。

This is where the class system most resembled a theatre of the absurd, where maids became invisible by turning their faces to the wall as their master walked by.

这就是阶级体系与荒诞派戏剧最为相似的部分，一看到主人，女仆们就要扭头脸贴墙变成隐形人。

The main difference between caste and class systems is that class systems are open, and social mobility is not legally restricted to certain people.

种姓制度和阶级制度之间的主要区别在于阶级制度是开放的，社会流动性不受法律限制于某些人。

That said, these inequalities are no longer explicitly enshrined in the law, which is an example of the greater openness of class systems.

也就是说，这些不平等现象不再明确载入法律，这是阶级制度更加开放的一个例子。

In class systems, the boundaries between class categories are often blurred, and there’s greater opportunity for social mobility into and out of class positions.

在阶级制度中， 阶级类别之间的界限往往是模糊的，社会流动性进出阶级职位的机会更大。

The US class system tends to reproduce existing class inequalities, because the advantages that you start with have an incredibly powerful impact on where you can end up.

美国的阶级制度倾向于重现现有的阶级不平等，因为你开始时的优势对你的结局有着难以置信的强大影响。

We discussed open and closed systems of stratification, and finally we talked about examples of different kinds of stratification systems, including caste systems and class systems.

我们讨论了开放和封闭的分层系统，最后我们讨论了不同类型分层系统的例子， 包括种姓系统和阶级系统。

There's still a little of that. It's a little snobbery, a class system that existed, but in 1960, you know—the late '60s, early '70s—it was impossible, especially if you came from something called The Flying Nun.

还有一点。这是一种有点势利的阶级制度，但是在1960年，60年代末70年代初，从电视转型到电影是不可能的，特别是如果你曾经拍过一部叫做《修女飞飞》的戏。