a large number of educated, intelligent and underemployed people in their 30s and 40s with little prospect of moving up the career ladder provided a perfect milieu for brewing liberal ideas.
大量受过教育、有头脑并且无业的人在他们三、四十岁的时候,对将他们的事业阶梯提升到能够哺育出自由想法的完美周边环境已经没有多少憧憬和展望。