We were all middle-class kids from the Midwest, "Hotel California" was our interpretation of the high life in Los Angeles.
我们是来自中西部州中产阶层背景的年轻人，“加州旅馆”是我们对洛杉矶的上流社会的诠释。There is always resistance in the lower classes to any attempt by an upper class to lay down rules for "English as it should be spoken. "
每当上流社会想给“规范英语”制订一些条条框框时，总会遭到下层人民的抵制。If you ran into him in London with his posh friends he wouldn't give any of you the time of day.
如果你们在伦敦正好碰见他与上流社会的朋友在一起，他是不会理睬你们任何一个人的。Jack was an ambitious young man; one of his dreams was to fight his way into the fashionable world.
杰克是个有抱负的年轻人，他的一个梦想是通过奋斗进入上流社会。His parents trained him to be a leader of society from his childhood.
他父母从小训练他成为上流社会的顶尖人物。But European society is not given to divorce: Countess Olenska thought she would be conforming to American ideas in asking for her freedom.
但欧洲上流社会也不喜欢离婚的：奥兰斯卡伯爵夫人认为要求个人自由符合美国的思想。Ms Lagarde did not clamber into the French elite by the narrow, winding, stairs of the "grande ecoles" or tribal, party allegiance.
他并不是依靠辉煌的法国高等教育背景，也不是依靠某个集团或政党的拥护而进入法国上流精英社会的。He went on his way, while Tess stood and waited, tears pouring down her cheeks.
邮车驰走了。苔丝站在一旁等着。眼泪不住地从脸颊上流下来。Then she started, a little social smile came on her face, for a moment she looked the pleasant hostess.
然后她又睁开眼，脸上露出上流社会人物的微笑，一时间她很象一位愉快的女主人了。