social ladder

基本解释

Many English novels show a poor main character rising on the economic and social ladder, perhaps because of a good marriage or the discovery of a hidden aristocratic past.
大量英国小说都讲述贫困的主人公在经济和社会的阶梯上青云直上，或得助于美好的姻缘，或由于不为人知的贵族背景被发现。
Unlike European countries, the social classes in America is not so stable. Further more, with the advocation of public education, movements upwards along the social ladder have become possible.
美国社会阶级不像欧洲国家那样固定，加上公共教育的普及，使沿着社会阶梯向上流动成为可能。
As impoverished farmers, they knew it promised a comfortable middle-class life and a giant step up the social ladder for their daughter.
作为一个贫穷的家庭，他们知道考上大学预示着他们的女儿将获得中产阶级的舒适生活，并且在社会等级的阶梯上跨一大步。

It also offered a leg-up for the rural masses to climb the social ladder.
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Many of these people scrabbled up the social ladder on their own and don't relish the idea of giving their heirs independent means.
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Yet, at the same time, the failure of minorities to get far up the social ladder shows the limits of the French model.
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