steerage

基本解釋

Her parents had arrived in the United States in a steamship, travelling steerage, the cheapestaccommodation, and settled in Denver.
睡在三等艙最廉價(jià)的鋪位上，乘坐著一艘蒸汽船，她的父母抵達(dá)了丹佛。
The first-class cabins are too expensive, second class is stifling and third is in steerage.
一等艙太貴，二等艙太悶，三等艙在近舵處。
"The humblest immigrant in steerage, " ran an editorial in John Bull, the newspaper of the working man, "had more moral right to a seat in a lifeboat than you."
John Bull，一家工人階級的報(bào)紙主編，評價(jià)道：“即使是一位三等艙的最卑微的移民，也比他更有資格獲得救生艙的一個(gè)座位。”

At one point, the smell of laundry drifted into the dining room, a whiff of steerage.
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Doubtless he had decided that it was outrageous for me to fly steerage, sound chap that he was.
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in the past, the part of a ship in which passengers with the cheapest tickets travelled

the cheapest accommodation on a passenger ship, originally the compartments containing the steering apparatus