On the market it matters

在市场中关键的只有
whether you are successful or you are a failure. Right?

成功与失败
And therefore if you have these status group kind of privileges,

也就是说如果你有地位群体的特权
this is a limitation on the functioning of the market. Right?

这本身就是对市场运作的限制
And therefore stronger the status groups are,

由此可知地位群体越强大
it can be a hindrance of free development of a market economy.

对市场经济自由发展的阻力也就越大
And now an idea about caste and ethnicity.

现在来谈谈等级与种族阶层
He said if the boundaries between

韦伯说如果地位群体间的界线
status groups are particularly sharply drawn,

划分得极为鲜明的话
in that case we can talk about castes.

这样一来我们便可以谈到等级
The caste differences occur, for instance,

等级区别会表现在例如
when there are prohibitions to intermarry between castes.

不同等级间的禁止通婚上