social distinction

常见例句

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。
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.
事实上，他有得有失：他对他们在日常琐事上的自私冷漠感到恼怒，但有时又为他们讲体面摆排场而欣欣然，因为在他看来这有助于提高他们的尊严和社会地位。

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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