social distinction

基本解釋

I was in a water front bar once, when I met a man obviously of some social distinction.
有一次，我在一個碼頭酒吧里，遇見一名明顯有些社會地位的男子。
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Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit.
收入相當(dāng)?shù)娜顺似沸藻漠愐酝鉀]有社會差別。
As it was, he received and gave, irritated sometimes by the little displays of selfish indifference, pleased at times by some show of finery which supposedly made for dignity and social distinction.
事實(shí)上，他有得有失：他對他們在日?，嵤律系淖运嚼淠械綈琅?，但有時又為他們講體面擺排場而欣欣然，因?yàn)樵谒磥磉@有助于提高他們的尊嚴(yán)和社會地位。

While no one can deny that consumption is a form of social distinction, it sounds even more absurd to think that people will pay more for an equal product.
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Concentrating on volume, while maintaining quality, the vodka is looking to subvert a long-standing equation of consumption as a marker of social status, as was eloquently explained by Pierre Bourdieau in Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment Of Taste.
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For although it draws a distinction between social exclusion and both poverty and unemployment, they are obviously closely correlated phenomena.
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