答：要想知道这句话什么意思，除了分析句子结构，知道每个词的意思，最好还要知道上下文。
Looking back on years of living in a working-class home in the north of England, I should say that a good living room must provide three principal things: gregariousness（群集）,warmth and plenty of good food. The living-room is the warm heart of the family and therefore often slightly stuffy to a middle-class visitor. It is not a social centre but a family centre; little entertaining goes on there or in the front room, if there happens to be one; you do not entertain in anything approaching the middle-class sense. The wife's social life outside her immediate family is found over the washing-line, at the little shop on the corner, visiting relatives at a moderate distance occasionally, and perhaps now and again a visit with her husband to his pub or club. Apart from these two places, he has just his work and his football matches. They will have, each of them, friends at all these places, who may well not know what the inside of their house is like, having never “stepped across the threshold,” as the old fashioned phrase has it. The family hearth（炉旁） is reserved for the family itself, and those who are “something to us” (another favorite formula) and who look in for a talk or just to sit. Much of the free time of a man and his wife will usually be passed at that hearth. Just staying in is still one of the most common leisure-time occupations.
you do not entertain in anything approaching the middle-class sense.
析：主语：You
谓语：do not entertain
状语：in anything
定语：approaching the middle-class sense
关键在entertain这个动词的理解和翻译。还有定语。
entertain
/9entE5teIn; 9ZntL`ten/ v
1 [I, Tn, Tn.pr]
~ sb (to sth) receive sb as a guest; provide food and drink for sb, esp in one's home 宴客; 招待, 款待某人（尤指在自己家中）
I don't entertain very often. 我不常在家请客.
They do a lot of entertaining, ie often give dinner parties, etc. 他们时常设宴待客.
Bob and Liz entertained us to dinner last night. 昨晚鲍勃和利兹设宴招待了我们.
所以这里的entertain in sth. 就是用。。。来招待客人 的意思。
译：你【在那儿（指起居室、客厅）】不用任何迎合中产阶级品味的东西来招待客人。
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