Though a middle-class person may "want to live like common people", they can never appreciate the reality of a working-classlife.
虽然一个中产阶级可能“想要像普通人一样生活”,但他们永远不会领会到工薪阶层生活的真相。
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As a member of the middle class, Gaskell could hardly help approaching working-classlife as an outside observer and a reporter, and the reader of the novel is always conscious of this fact.