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、无家可归者、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，而且你几远处于下层阶。

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

一个社的下层阶是指该社中最底层的人。

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、妓女和酗酒的人。该下层阶是我们现代生活方式中不可言及却又远存在的阴影。

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

由于这些人无法为资本主义制度做出贡献，因此他们视为下层阶。

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，指的是穷人、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“这些都是底层阶的问题”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世纪的经济体不想要产生一个庞大的底层阶，制定者亟需制定措施，帮助国民在谋生的同时学习。

So, too, now with cell phones. Anyone without one will soon be classified as a crank or member of the underclass.

现在有了手机，人们也不记得在此之前是怎么生活的。没有手机的人，不久就看成是怪人或下等人。

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——对下层阶的生活兴趣有限。

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年与作曲家库尔特·威尔合著的《三便士歌剧》或许是他最为成功的作品。

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，社将分裂成一个富有的，拥有机器人的富豪统治阶层和一个失业的底层社，还需要专制府来控制社不满情绪。但是在2030年的。

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

但这将是对资源的宝贵浪费，否则他们怎么能让他们的中层管理人员留在他们想要的地方呢？

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.

他们的讲话就像一个下层英国水手的讲话，但夹杂着一些咒骂词和混杂在一起的俚语，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的。

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，如果数亿人可以像当地人一样领取福利，他们将使富裕国家的福利国家破产； 如果他们得不到这种帮助， 他们可能成为明显的下层阶，就像今天海湾国家的情况一样。

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.

社学家威廉·朱利叶斯·威尔逊在他广泛引用的著作《真正的弱势群体》中写道，“只有一项重大的经济改革计划”才能防止容易发生骚乱的城市下层阶久排除在美国经济生活之外。