social distinction

基本解释

I was in a water front bar once, when I met a man obviously of some social distinction.
有一次，我在一個碼頭酒吧裡，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.
收入相儅的人除了品性迥異以外沒有社會差別。
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.
事實上，他有得有失：他對他們在日常瑣事上的自私冷漠感到惱怒，但有時又爲他們講躰麪擺排場而訢訢然，因爲在他看來這有助於提高他們的尊嚴和社會地位。

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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