I was in a water front bar once, when I met a man obviously of some social distinction.

有一次，我在一个码头酒吧里，遇见一名明显有些社会地位的男子。

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Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit.

收入相当的人除了品性迥异以外没有社会差别。

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Class consumption and social distinction is one of important theoretical perspectives in understanding middle class consumption.

社会区隔是理解中产阶层消费的重要理论分析视角。

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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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