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- `% Q& ]: I: {8 ~1 `pan 发表于 2020-10-5 09:43
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! x9 n- \7 H+ w' K2 ~& jThank you. I'll take your comment as a compliment. :P ; r, D* R: p( ?1 O9 [
Orwell would later write in a tone of pedantic irony that his family was among the “lower-upper-middle-class” ranks that dotted Edwardian society.
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I'd like to draw your attention to the phrase pedantic irony, which may shed light on the meaning of lower-upper-middle-class , and help in finding an equivalent for it in Chinese.
6 w6 }) H6 f+ s3 Q5 vIn other words, all the contextual clues needed for understanding what is meant by lower-upper-middle-class is already here and there is no need for more.
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