Nokia weathered criticism from investors that it was expending too much effort on high-end smartphones while its rival ate into its lucrative business selling expensive 'dumb' phones to upwardly mobile people around the world.

A second career type was linear, in which all job changes were upwardly mobile in the same career path. Each job paid more than the last and had more responsibility, but rarely deviated from the same basic field.

第二种职业模式为线型，也就是每次换工作都是在同一条职业道路上向上爬，每份工作都比上一份薪酬高、权责大，但几乎不会偏离基本领域。

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Even the numbering of the floors was a bit of upwardly mobile sleight of hand, calibrated to enhance the perception of what the developer, the Related Companies, marketed as Five Star Living.

就连楼层的编号方式也别出心裁，强化了开发商Related Companies提出的五星级居住环境的营销概念。

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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.

各项指标都显示，日益增多的中国新贵们，同美国，日本和欧洲的消费者一样，都迫切地想拥有自己的汽车。

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Mr Xu may not fit the western idea of middle class, but in the Chinese context he and 270m migrant workers like him are part of a new category of upwardly mobile consumers.

徐波或许并不符合西方对于中产阶层的认识，但在中国的环境里，他和2.7亿名像他一样的进城务工人员属于一个向上移动的新兴消费者阶层。

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But vocal fry is unique, because researchers have found that women who talk this way are seen by their peers as educated, urban-oriented, and upwardly mobile.

但是“泡泡音”不同，因为研究者发现同龄人视这种说话的女士为有教养、城市化和希望改善社会地位的人。

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Labour has lost the recruits once provided by the smokestack industries and a Conservative membership card no longer bestows social cachet on the upwardly mobile middle classes.

工党已经失去了曾由传统工业输送的成员，保守党成员的身份牌也不再能给有望向社会上层流动的中产阶层赋予社会声望。

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These elements include neo-liberals, neo-conservatives, authoritarian populists, and a particular fraction of the upwardly mobile professional and managerial new middle class.

该四个群体分别是：新自由主义、新保守主义、专制的民粹主义以及作为正呈向上流动趋势的专业和管理新中产阶级中的一个特殊部分。

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Building restrictions in vibrant cities and their nearby, exclusive suburbs prevent upwardly mobile people from relocating to places that offer the most economic opportunity.

具体来说就是，政府限制人们在繁华城市及其周边专属郊区修建住宅后，正在向上流动的社会人群没法自由移居到发展机会更好的地方。

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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。

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Look up!; the music surged up; the fragments flew upwards; prices soared upwards; upwardly mobile.

向上看；音乐令人激情荡漾；碎片漫天飞扬；价格暴涨；向上升的，有上升趋势的。

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Tiny Times, the film franchise on the lives of young, upwardly mobile Chinese, is probably the most successful example of the relatively new business.

谈到这一最新业务，电影《小时代》可谓是初期最成功的范例。该电影聚焦于一帮年轻且追求上流阶层生活的年轻人。

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So, soon, will the final adornment of any upwardly mobile city: an ikea.

很快，与这经济飞跃相映成趣的最后修饰就将粉墨登场：宜家家居。

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Perkiness is further buoyed by upwardly mobile forecasts for economic growth.

经济增长预期的上调进一步提振了乐观情绪。

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A young upwardly mobile professional person; someone under 40 who prospered during the 1980s.

有上升趋势的年青专业人士；40岁以下流行于十九世纪八十年代。

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Hardly anyone had seen a young upwardly mobile professional before, but now they were everywhere.

以前，几乎没有人见过社会地位处于上升趋势的年轻专业人士，但现在到处都是他们的身影。

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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。

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Britain's secondary-school exam results have every reason to be upwardly mobile.

英国中学的考试成绩完全有可能大幅度上升。

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But these elite members of China's new class of upwardly mobile are feeling the strain.

在中国，涌现出的精英新贵们却被工作累得精疲力竭。

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Britain is not a truly fluid society; upwardly mobile.

英国不是一个真正变化大的社会；向上变化的。

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The meeting attracted upwardly mobile professional and political women.

这次会议吸引了积极进取的职业和从政妇女。

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