Visitors to the Ashmolean museum in Oxford may ponder the extraordinary unfairness: how many other "ambitious, ingratiating" social climbers have stolen so completely a hero's legacy?

来到牛津参观a shmolean博物馆的游客或许会对这种极大的不公平有所思考：究竟会有多少社会精英参与了这场对于传说中的英雄的财富的掠夺呢？

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Someone who buys a more expensive watch or car to climb up the social ladder forces other social climbers to spend more to stay ahead.

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Todd wanted to play up the bootmaker's historic appeal with the upper-crust set to attract style-sensitive social climbers.

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