steerage

基本解释

Her parents had arrived in the United States in a steamship, travelling steerage, the cheapestaccommodation, and settled in Denver.
睡在三等舱最廉价的铺位上，乘坐着一艘蒸汽船，她的父母抵达了丹佛。
The first-class cabins are too expensive, second class is stifling and third is in steerage.
一等舱太贵，二等舱太闷，三等舱在近舵处。
"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，一家工人阶级的报纸主编，评价道：“即使是一位三等舱的最卑微的移民，也比他更有资格获得救生舱的一个座位。”

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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Palmer himself waxes poetic about the Irish Stew and Jig dancing he plans to experience while slumming in the steerage.
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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