The underclass consists of the poor, the homeless, many of the unemployed, the emotionally disturbed, and the disabled.

该下层阶包括穷人、归者、众多失业者、情感受挫者和残疾人。

That drives poverty and you have almost a permanent underclass.

这导致了贫困，而且你几乎会永远处于下层阶。

The underclass of a society is the lowest class of people in that society.

一个社会下层阶是指该社会中最底层人。

This class also includes drug addicts, prostitutes and alcoholics. The underclass is the unspoken but ever-present shadow of our modern lifestyle.

这一阶也包括吸毒者、妓女和酗酒人。该下层阶是我们现代生活方式中不言及却又永远存在阴影。

Because these people are unable to contribute to the system of capitalism, they are considered the underclass.

由于这些人法为资本主义制度做出贡献，因此他们被视为下层阶。

Double-speak, bending old stuff to suit new ways of thinking, creating a new underclass.

双关语，扭曲旧事物以适应新思维方式，创造一个新下层阶。

Usually, when we talk about 'the underclass' it refers to the poor, the unemployed and the disabled.

通常，当我们谈论“下层阶”时，指是穷人、失业者和残疾人。

Nor can it be explained away as an " underclass" problem; it is found on our most privileged campuses.

这也不能用“这些都是底层阶问题”来解释，因为问题也频频出现在多数特权校园。

If 21st-century economies are not to create a massive underclass, policymakers urgently need to work out how to help all their citizens learn while they earn.

如果21世纪经济体不想要产生一个庞大底层阶，政策制定者亟需制定措施，帮助国民在谋生同时学习。

He didn't see - he didn't think society at large was - had a limited interest in the life of the underclass.

他没有看到——他不认为整个社会——对下层阶生活兴趣有限。

In 1928, he had maybe his greatest success with " The Threepenny Opera, " a tale of the criminal underclass, co-written with the composer Kurt Weill.

他在1928年与曲库尔特·威尔合著《三便士歌剧》或许是他最为成品。

Even if they were bought out, the stigma remained: their engagement in sex work made them part of a legally circumscribed underclass.

即使他们被买断，耻辱仍然存在：他们从事性工使他们成为受法律限制下层阶一部分。

We see in our daily lives that some of the conquered peoples continue to form an underclass, centuries after the conquests or slave imports took place.

我们在日常生活中看到，在征服或奴隶进口发生几个世纪后，一些被征服民族继续形成下层阶。

Thirty-five-year-olds hear the slang of teenagers, college students are privy to the language of the urban underclass, and advertising consultants learn how to talk like self-diagnosed anxiety shut-ins.

三十五岁人听到青少年俚语，大学生了解城市底层阶语言，广告顾问学会了如何像自我诊断为焦虑症隐士一样说话。

Bestselling books predicted dystopian outcomes in which society split into a wealthy, robot-owning plutocracy and an unemployed underclass, and repressive governments would be needed to rein in social discontent.

畅销书也预测了反乌托邦式结果，社会将会分裂成一个富有，拥有机器人富豪统治阶层和一个失业底层社会，还需要专制政府来控制社会不满情绪。但是在2030年。

But that would be a precious waste of resources, and how else could they keep their middle management underclass right where they wanted?

但这将是对资源宝贵浪费，否则他们怎么能让他们中层管理人员留在他们想要地方呢？

Their speech would have been that of an underclass British sailor but with an extra dose of curse words amplified with a mix of slang that they picked up on trade routes from French, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch sailors.

他们讲话就像一个下层英国水手讲话，但夹杂着一些咒骂词和混杂在一起俚语，这些俚语是他们在贸易路线上从法国、意大利、西班牙和荷兰水手那里学来。

But if hundreds of millions can claim benefits as locals do, they will bankrupt rich-country welfare states; and if they are denied such help, they may become a visible underclass, as is the case in Gulf states today.

但是，如果数亿人以像当地人一样领取福利，他们将使富裕国福利国破产； 如果他们得不到这种帮助， 他们能会成为明显下层阶，就像今天海湾国情况一样。

In his much quoted book, " The Truly Disadvantaged, " sociologist William Julius Wilson wrote that " only a major program of economic reform" will prevent the riot-prone urban underclass from being permanently locked out of American economic life.

社会学威廉·朱利叶斯·威尔逊在他被广泛引用著《真正弱势群体》中写道，“只有一项重大经济改革计划”才能防止容易发生骚乱城市下层阶被永久排除在美国经济生活之外。