Mister Veblen argued that people gathered wealth for the purpose of "conspicuous consumption."

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The code is unusually conspicuous, complex, and enigmatic; it attracts an inordinate amount of attention to itself, and this attention has to acquire the rigor of a method.

这种代码通常很显著，复杂，神秘;,它把大量的注意力都吸引到自己身上，这种注意力得有一种方法的严肃性。

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