I fear that in our so-called upwardly mobile world we are on a downward spiral towards becoming morally bankrupt.

我担心在我们这个所谓向上爬的世界里，我们的道德水準却在盘旋下降，几近崩溃。

In our upwardly mobile society, parents often expect their children to be better than them.

在这个人往高处发展的社会，父母总是盼望着孩子能比自己过得好。

Hadrian belonged to an upwardly mobile Spanish landowning elite that had grown rich selling olive oil.

哈德良出生于一个扶摇直上的西班牙地主家庭(他们是通过贩卖橄榄油而发家的)。

The style purported to be 「natural,」 「organic,」 a principled rejection of well-behaved, antiseptic, upwardly mobile middle-class habits in favor of a return to folk origins and lost traditions.

他们的风格，据称是「自然的」，「有机的」，原则上拒绝那种循规蹈矩、讲究卫生、追求上进的中产阶级习气，崇尚回归已经逝去了的民间传统。

He is a member of an upwardly mobile generation.

他是社会地位上升的一代人之一。

Luxury automakers are tripping over each other to appeal to this upwardly mobile and style-conscious class of consumers.

豪华汽车制造商在吸引这群追求档次和时尚的新富阶层消费者时相互阻挠。

For instance - and this is not likely to sit well with social egalitarians - men who are married to 「homemaker」 wives are more likely to have upwardly mobile careers.

例如——当然这并不适合那些社会平等主义者——娶了一位「家庭主妇型」妻子的男人有更大的可能在事业上不断得到提拔。

This is at a time when all indications suggest that upwardly mobile and newly prosperous Chinese have the same powerful urge to own a car as consumers in the United States, Japan and Western Europe.

这发生在所有的指标都显示，中国的新贵们，同美国，日本和欧洲的消费者一样，迫切地想拥有自己汽车。

On the Go: In a city like Shanghai where cars are still reserved for the upwardly mobile or taxi drivers, people walk a lot.

多走路：在像上海这样的城市里，汽车还是向上爬的年轻人以及出租车司机的专利品，一般人都会走很多路。

But this comes close: find a region where casinos are largely banned, but whose vast and upwardly mobile population is gambling mad.

但接下来这个就近乎完美：先找个禁止开设赌场的地区，但却有着大量上升的流动人口，而且每个人都视赌如命。

Yet as pensioners tug one way, upwardly mobile young voters pull another.

前有领养老金的人扯着后腿，后有地位渐显的年轻选民们拽着胳膊。

But, in fact, many upwardly mobile Chinese fall somewhere in the middle, chasing personal fulfillment and consumer gratification with equal abandon.

但事实上，许多向上登攀的中国人介乎中间，对于自我实现和消费满足同样纵情追逐。

But most of the air are concentrated in the 15 km high from the ground to the following areas, the more upwardly mobile air thinner.

但绝大部分空气都集中在从地面到15公里高以下的地方，越往高处空气越稀薄。大气层有多厚，蓝天就应该有多高。

Anecdotally, at least, there is a small but significant movement of upwardly mobile young Chinese becoming monks.

据说中国目前存在一种虽不起眼却很重要的动向，那就是一些很有发展前途的年轻人选择了出家。