What happened was that the people in the lower orders got looked down on, which weakened their self-esteem.

当时的情况是，身处较低阶级的人受到了蔑视，削弱了他们的自尊。

Set two tables here, Ellen: one for your master and Miss Isabella, being gentry; the other for Heathcliff and myself, being of the lower orders.

在这儿摆两张桌子吧，艾伦，一张给你主人和伊莎贝拉小姐用，他们是有门第的上等人；另一张给希刺克厉夫和我自己，我们是属于下等阶级的。

Critics assume that private parents are rich snobs trying to avoid the lower orders, says Anthony Seldon, headmaster of Wellington College, a boarding school.

评论者认为私立学校孩子的父母是设法避免下层社会的富裕的势利之人，一所寄宿学校- - -惠灵顿学院的校长安东尼·塞尔登(Anthony Seldon)如是说。

We tended to blame the people lower down, but the orders did not really come from the people lower down.

我们往往把事情归咎于下层人民，但是，命令并不真的来自下层人民。

These savings could lower the cost of stock orders.

节省下来的钱可以降低股票交易的成本。