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

• This part of town is where the upper class live.
  镇上这个地区是上层阶级的人住的。
• Well at least it means they're probably not members of the upper class or high status members.
  至少说明了这些人或许不是，社会的上层人员。
• Since going away to university he's affected a ridiculous upper class accent.
  自从去上大学以后，他便装出一种可笑的上流社会的腔调。
• 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。
• The American upper class like to decorate their houses with oriental handmade rugs;
  美国的上流社会喜欢用东方的手织地毯装饰家居。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• She belongs to the rich American upper class and spends her time having lunch with friends and doing charity work.
  她属于美国富裕的上层阶级，把时间花在和朋友共进午餐和做慈善工作上面。
• The Law of One remained a nurturing, matriarchal spiritual culture, while the Aryan grew into a powerful military corporate society, dominated by the upper class.
  “一的法则”仍是一个培育、母系灵性的文化，而雅利安人却发展为一个被上级所控制的强大的军事企业社会。