It's a rebuttal of the ruling class, which is predominantly conservative.

这是对以保守为主的统治阶级的颠覆。

For the next five centuries, French was the language of the ruling class in England.

在接下来的五个世纪，法语是英国统治阶级的语言。

Also, forcing the ruling classes to speak French, all because he didn't know English.

此外，（威廉）强迫统治阶级说法语，因为他不懂英语。

His priests were highly educated scribes, and his cult was loosely associated with the ruling class of ancient Egypt.

他的祭司都是受过高等教育的文士，他的崇拜与古埃及的统治阶级有松散的联系。

With the ruling classes it was far otherwise.

对于统治阶级来说，情况就大不相同了。

It is against the ruling classes that were oligarchical and insensitive.

它反对寡头和麻木不仁的统治阶级。

The ruling class's core curriculum stifles dissent.

统治阶级的核心课程扼杀了异议的存在。

Locke focused  on the responsibilities of the ruling class, like the monarchy.

洛克关注统治阶级的责任，例如君主制。

The ruling class, the law, and the government of the old order had been subverted.

统治阶级、法律和旧秩序的政府都被颠覆了。

That's why we're the ruling class.

这就是为什么我们是统治阶级。

" But in the Liangzhu culture, it turned into sort of an exquisitely decorated scepter, a ritual item of the ruling class."

“但在良渚文化中，它变成了一种装饰精美的权杖，是统治阶层的礼仪器物。”

Suddenly, an elite class of monks and the ruling class no longer controlled the production of texts.

突然间，僧侣精英阶层和统治阶级不再控制文本的生产。

But people also speculate that snails represented the slowness of time, or the insulation of the ruling class.

但人们也推测，蜗牛代表着时间的缓慢，或统治阶级的绝缘。

The " ruling class" refers to the people who are running a country – the leaders of a country.

“统治阶级”是指管理国家的人——国家领导人。

From the ruling classes to ordinary people, all favored and developed a pedant disposition of typical literati.

从统治阶级到普通百姓，无不青睐并养成了典型的文人的迂腐气质。

During the Norman period, the ruling class spoke Anglo-French while the peasants spoke their native Saxon language.

在诺曼底时期， 统治阶级说英法， 而农民则说他们的母语撒克逊语。

This working class answered to the ruling class  but were free to live their lives as they wished.

这个工人阶级对统治阶级负责，但可以自由地过自己喜欢的生活。

According to some historians, the common use of this lead additive caused widespread infertility and dementia in ancient Rome, especially among the ruling class.

部分历史学家指出，古罗马时期常常使用铅添加剂的后果就是不孕不育和痴呆症比比皆是，在统治阶级中尤其严重。

Most people lived in huts made out of poles and vines and plastered with mud, but the ruling class lived in huge stone palaces.

大多数人住在用杆子和藤条搭成的棚屋里，上面还抹了一层泥巴，但是统治阶级却住在巨大的石头宫殿内。

This essentially is why the ruling class spoke French, but the peasants and working people in the towns and villages across England continued, speaking English.

这本质上就是为什么统治阶级说法语，但英格兰各地城镇和村庄的农民和劳动人民继续说英语。