upper class

英 [ði ˌʌpə ˈklɑːs]

美 [ði ˌʌpər ˈklæs]

n.  上流社会; 上等阶层

Collins.1

牛津词典

noun

• 上流社会；上等阶层
  the groups of people that are considered to have the highest social status and that have more money and/or power than other people in society
  1. a member of the upper class/upper classes
     上流社会人士

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT-COLL 上层阶级；上等阶层；上流社会
  Theupper classor theupper classesare the group of people in a society who own the most property and have the highest social status, and who may not need to work for money.
  1. ...goods specifically designed to appeal to the tastes of the upper class...
     专门为迎合上流社会品位而设计的商品
  2. Many of the British upper classes are no longer very rich.
     英国的上流社会许多人已不再富得流油。
  3. Upper classis also an adjective.
     
  4. All of them came from wealthy, upper class families.
     他们全部来自富有的上流社会家庭。
  5. ...different styles of upper-class speech.
     上流社会不同的讲话风格

英英释义

noun

• the class occupying the highest position in the social hierarchy
  Synonym:upper crust

双语例句

• Many of them say they want to be a sort of upper class, rather than only being rich.
  很多富人说，他们希望成为上流社会的一份子，而不只是有钱而已。
• Fairhope is swifty becoming a retirement town for middle and upper class.
  并且正逐步的成为中高阶层的养老镇了。
• Clients usually fall into to the upper class category but try to keep their intentions about emigration quiet.
  客户通常都是上流社会的人，但是他们都不张扬他们的移民打算。
• For the next few hundred years the upper class spoke French while the common people spoke English.
  在接下来的几百年时间里，英国的上层阶级说法语，而平民百姓仍然说英语。
• The writer builds up a clever contextual picture of upper class life.
  作者巧妙地构筑了一幅上流社会生活的背景图画。
• After the Norman conquest, upper class people spoke French while common people spoke english.
  诺曼征服后，上层阶级说法语，而普通百姓则说英语。
• Who exactly is "upper class" in England or is it just a mental construct?
  那么在英国，谁又是“上流阶层”？抑或只是一时臆想？
• Freud's& Freud was very focused on the family life of the people he interacted with, which is rather upper class Europeans, and these sort of questions would have been difficult for Freud to answer.
  弗洛伊德的-弗洛伊德非常专注于他卷入的人们的家庭生活，这当然是上层的欧洲人的，而这类的问题对弗洛伊德来时要回答是有困难的。
• In the19th century, cricket was a sport played mainly by the upper class.
  在19世纪，板球运动主要是上流阶级的运动。
• In order to understand the system, it is first necessary to understand the structure of that upper class.
  所以，为了了解围的礼乐制度，有必要先了解其社会上层的结构。