The middle class likes to see themselves as useful.

中产阶级希望看到他们发挥作用
You find lawyers reaching in there and, slowly, doctors.

你会发现律师崛起很快医生也慢慢地崛起
Remember doctors had very low social status.

别忘了那时的医生社会地位很低
They were sort of a cut above the bad pun I make in what you read,

这些比之于我课件上书上的那些比喻要更胜一筹
ordinary field surgeons during Napoleonic battles,

在拿破仑战争期间的普通乡野外科医生
some of whom were butchers or people that knew how to wield a knife.

有一部分是屠夫或是会操刀的人
Doctors increase a self-identity

医生的身份地位提高
and become more important in the nineteenth century.

并且在十九世纪显得越发重要
You also find notaries no matter what country you're in.

无论身处哪个国家都会有公证员
Notaries have a much bigger role in Europe than they do here.

公证员在欧洲比在我们这儿重要多了
Notaries know where all the goodies are.

公证员知道从哪儿捞取好处
When you buy property in France, by the way,

比方说你要在法国购房产