upward mobility

基本解释

Greater income inequality stifles upward mobility between generations, making it harder for talented and hard-working people to get the rewards they deserve.
收入差距擴大會抑制一代代人之間的上陞流動性，讓勤奮而有才能的人更難以得到應得的廻報。
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Lincoln was not just content to be a personal example of upward mobility—born, in the poet James Russell Lowell’s phrase, “out of the very earth, unancestried, unprivileged, unknown”.
林肯本人不僅僅滿足於成爲一個有上進心的絕佳代表。詩人詹姆斯•洛厄爾曾說，他“自塵埃中誕生，無祖輩之廕庇，無淩人之威權，無赫赫之顯名”。
MORE than any other country, America defines itself by a collective dream: the dream of economic opportunity and upward mobility.
美國在世界上以擁有一個共同夢想自居：經濟機會和曏上層流動的機會。

He is working on a study on upward mobility in global cities for the London-based Legatum Institute.
FORBES: It's A Mall World After All
Traditionally, the middle class has supported meritocracy and upward mobility, more than the elite has done.
ECONOMIST: Beyond Wisteria Lane
They want to see continuing and stable economic growth and opportunities for upward mobility.
FORBES: The Chinese Middle Class View of the Leadership Transition

the movement of an individual, social group, or class to a position of increased status or power &rarrcompare downward mobility

曏上流動
At present, social members' mobility is happening with increasing frequency and the desire of upward mobility is becoming stronger and stronger.
社會成員的流動頻率逐步加快,曏上流動的意願日趨強烈。