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单词 upstairs-downstairs
释义

upstairs-downstairs

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Adjective

upstairs-downstairs (not comparable)

  1. Involving or relating to divisions or relations between different social classes, especially domestic servants and their upper-class employers.
    • 2015, Antoinette Stockenberg, Time After Time
      In Gilded-Age Newport, an upstairs-downstairs romance between a well-born son and a humble maid is cut short of marriage.
    • 2003, John A. Flower, Downstairs, Upstairs: The Changed Spirit and Face of College Life in America (page 166)
      How different the thrust of a college education is today. It is broadly accessible and egalitarian. But an upstairs-downstairs syndrome still exists in American higher education.
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