Middle-Class Squeeze(3)

■Words and Phrases

  • motherhood and apple pie
  • play well
    • 受けがいい
  • audience
    • 聴衆
  • frugality
    • 質素であること
  • put the squeeze on
    • 苦境に立たせる
  • record corporate profits
    • 記録的な企業収益
  • disconnect between
    • の間のずれ
  • roughly
    • およそ
  • qualify for
    • の資格を得る
  • priority list
    • 優先事項リスト

■Daily Exercise

  1. Bill says politicians who praise the middle class get a good [reception].
  2. In the past,what was considered a key indicator of middle-class status? [Owning a home]
  3. Steve says middle-class people have [upward] aspirations for their children.

(上昇志向)