上流阶层

上流阶层社会等级，尤指高等级

Social rank or caste, especially high rank.

伦敦纽约的上流阶层和那些经常在上流社交圈里出没的银行家和投行人士，他们的生活会冷清一点了。

The wine bars of Mayfair and Connecticut—and other haunts of bankers and buy-out merchants—will be a little quieter.

比方说，您的后代连续三代就读伊顿（eton），但您的曾祖父是杂物商，那么您是否属于上流阶层？

For example, if your children attend Eton for three generations but your great-grandfather was a grocer, are you upper class?

那么在英国，谁又是“上流阶层”？抑或只是一时臆想？

Who exactly is "upper class" in England or is it just a mental construct?

他的戏剧在大众中名声好，但上流阶层并不表示赞赏。

His plays were popular with the masses but frowned upon by smart society.

多数人喜欢阅读有关上流阶层中尔虞我诈的作品。

Most people enjoy reading about deceit and dishonesty in high places.

他活动于上流阶层，结交的尽是贵族。

He moves in very rarefied circles; his friends are all lords.

在智力与艺术方面，纽兰·阿切尔觉得自己比老纽约上流阶层这些精选的标本明显要高一筹：他比这帮人中任何一位大概都读得多、思考得多，并且也见识得多。

In matters intellectual and artistic Newland Archer felt himself distinctly the superior of these chosen specimens of old New York gentility; he had probably read more, thought more, and even seen a good deal more of the world, than any other man of the number.

北京葡萄酒教育咨询机构龙凤美酒咨询公司的总经理赵凤仪说，如今，经济衰退正逐渐迫使葡萄酒生产商们关注“真正的买家”——中国的中产阶级和上流阶层，他们喝葡萄酒，是因为他们喜欢葡萄酒，而不是为了彰显身份或品味。

The shakeout is forcing winemakers to focus on "real buyers," says Fongyee Walker, the managing director of Dragon Phoenix, a wine education consultancy based in Beijing. That is the middle-and upper-class Chinese who drink wine because they like it, not because of the status or favors it brings.