【英音模仿秀】忆昔中产全盛日 今朝衰颓思无涯

模仿文本：

    David Boyle, at the New Economics Foundation, doesn't see the middle class as wealthy or gregarious¹. He argues that it's been killed "stone dead" and he's identified the murderer. Just like on the Orient Express, it wasn't one killer², but several, unaffordable house prices, greedy banks, the me-first scramble³ for good education, extortionate child care costs, and plundered⁴ pensions.

 

译文：

    他就是来自新经济基金会的大卫·博伊尔。在他看来，中产阶级“死得很惨”，而且正如在“东方快车”上一样，“凶手”不止一人——高不可攀的房价、贪婪的银行、为了受到良好教育而展开的自私的争夺、高昂的育儿费以及被削减的养老金。

 

1 gregarious   

adj.群居的，喜好群居的

参考例句：

• These animals are highly gregarious.这些动物非常喜欢群居。
• They are gregarious birds and feed in flocks.它们是群居鸟类，会集群觅食。

2 killer   

n.杀人者，杀人犯，杀手，屠杀者

参考例句：

• Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
• The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。

3 scramble   

v.爬行，攀爬，杂乱蔓延，碎片，片段，废料

参考例句：

• He broke his leg in his scramble down the wall.他爬墙摔断了腿。
• It was a long scramble to the top of the hill.到山顶须要爬登一段长路。

4 plundered   

掠夺，抢劫( plunder的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Many of our cultural treasures have been plundered by imperialists. 我国许多珍贵文物被帝国主义掠走了。
• The imperialists plundered many valuable works of art. 帝国主义列强掠夺了许多珍贵的艺术品。