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单词 how the other half lives
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how the other half lives (also live)
1. People of a different, usually more affluent, social class or group. Chiefly in how the other half lives (also live).
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society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > those belonging to a different class
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1607 Bp. J. Hall Holy Observ. 26 One half of the world knowes not how the other liues.]
a1633 G. Herbert Outlandish Prov. (1640) sig. D7v Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies [sic].
1786 R. Hunter Jrnl. 5 June in Quebec to Carolina (1943) (modernized text) 257 One half of the world do no know how the other half live.
1830 F. Marryat King's Own I. x. 141 It is an old proverb that ‘one half the world do not know how the other half live’. Add to it, nor where they live.
1890 J. A. Riis How Other Half Lives 1 Long ago it was said that ‘one half of the world does not know how the other half lives’.
1890 J. A. Riis How Other Half Lives 3 The sufferings and sins of the ‘other half’..are but..a just punishment upon the community that gave it no other choice.
1945 N. L. McClung Stream runs Fast xiii. 106 We were only amateurs but we did find out a few things about how the ‘other half’ lived.
1965 E. O'Brien August is Wicked Month xiii. 141 ‘Why not, see how the other half live..’ she said... They would have the pool and servants to wait on them.
1968 J. Sangster Touchfeather xiii. 140 He said if I was ever in Los Angeles to look him up. Glad I did. Talk about how the other half lives!
1970 ‘D. Shannon’ Unexpected Death (1971) ix. 141 ‘My God,’ said Higgins. ‘How the other half lives.’
1975 Times 15 Jan. 15/4 In the interests of national unity, may I support your plea to the other half (and if they do not know they are in it, that is half the trouble) to accept that the shocking conditions of the London comprehensives..are really good for their children, and for society.
1992 Equinox Aug. 96/3 Thanks to their most prominent alumni, Ahmek and Wapomeo are best known as the summer getaways where the other half plays.
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