rival unionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

It is affirmed that in the country where this tendency is most completely realized—where both society and the government are most democratic—the United States—the feeling of the majority, to whom any appearance of a more showy or costly style of living than they can hope to rival is disagreeable, operates as a tolerably effectual sumptuary law, and that in many parts of the Union it is really difficult for a person possessing a very large income, to find any mode of spending it, which will not incur popular disapprobation.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

この傾向がもっとも完全に実現している国、つまり社会も政府ももっとも民主的な国、アメリカ合衆国では、多数派の感情は、彼らと比肩する以上に派手で贅沢な生活様式にたいして、不愉快と感じ、それがまあまあ有効な贅沢禁止法として作用しており、連邦の多くの部分で、高額所得者は民衆の反感を買わないような支出方法を見出すことが現実に困難となっているのです。 - John Stuart Mill『自由について』