sumptuary laws

基本解釋

As the booming economy upset the God-given medieval hierarchy, secular sumptuary laws, which regulated consumption habits, were a brake on social mobility.
隨著繁榮的經(jīng)濟(jì)打亂了神賜的中世紀(jì)社會(huì)階級(jí)，世俗限制奢侈法律開始出現(xiàn)，控制消費(fèi)習(xí)慣，并對社會(huì)流動(dòng)性踩上了剎車。
And were readily allowed to individuals dignified by rank or wealth even while sumptuary laws forbade these and similar extravagances to the plebeian order.
而且，盡管禁止奢侈的法律不準(zhǔn)平民等級(jí)效法這一類鋪張，但是地位高或財(cái)富多的人，隨時(shí)都可得到豁免。

That is what the whole concept of unalienable individual rights means, and sumptuary laws, especially in the form of prohibition, were something they continually warned about.
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