He said, you know, "The class position really means

他说阶级地位的真正意义在于
that people have common life chances." right?

人们拥有相同的生活机遇
If you are located differently,

如果人们处在不同的社会地位
there are positively and negatively--

就会存在积极和消极的特权地位
this is the Weberian point--

这就是韦伯的观点
positively and negatively privileged positions on the marketplace.

市场环境下积极和消极的特权地位并存
And if you are negatively privileged in the marketplace,

如果你处在市场中的消极特权地位
your life chances are not very good. Right?

你的生活机遇就不容乐观
If you are positively privileged in the marketplace,

如果你处于积极的特权地位
then your life chances are great.

那你的生活机遇就会很好
You guys in this room are all very positively privileged

在座的各位都是拥有积极特权的
--right?--because you are getting a Yale degree;

因为你们将获得耶鲁的学位