status symbol

noun

1. 社会地位与财富的象征
   a possession that people think shows their high social status and wealth
   1. Exotic pets are the latest status symbol.
      养珍禽异兽是表现社会地位的最时髦方式。

1. 社会地位的象征;身份的象征
   A status symbol is something that a person has or owns that shows they have money or importance in society.

1. Carrying a chanel bag suggests you have a fat wallet inside, which is the ultimate status symbol.
   一个香奈尔（Chanel）的手提包握在手，就能说明你的腰包有多鼓，当然最终也成为一种经济地位的象征。
2. Membership in these corporate facilities was, and still is, a status symbol.
   拥有这样的会员身份，至今仍是一种身份地位的象征。
3. Although smoking is considered as a bad habit but in some communities it is considered as the status symbol.
   虽然吸烟被视为一种有害的习惯，但在某些活动中它却是身份的象征。
4. For decades, it was the status symbol in African American communities.
   几十年来，在非洲裔美国人中，卡迪拉克都是身份地位的象征。
5. Carrying a bottle of juice has become a status symbol in fitness circles.
   在健身界，随身携带一瓶果汁已经成为一种社会地位的象征。
6. Officialdom can also lead to membership of the Chinese Communist Party& a status symbol in China.
   而且，公务岗位还能保证入党这在中国是身份地位的象征。
7. And its assumed that the dog is there for protection and as a status symbol. But now a British study reveals that, for young gang members anyway, the primary reasons for having a dog are not those related to gang activities.
   而这条狗可能只是起的一个保护作用和一个地位的象征。但是最近一项英国研究显示，对于年轻的帮派成员来说，养条狗最主要的目的其实跟帮派活动没有什么太大关系。
8. For them, the ultimate status symbol is the power to live by nature's clock rather than the Net's clock.
   对他们来说，地位的最大标志在于有无能力按照自然的生物钟而非网络钟来工作和休息。
9. In the creative industries, Japanese designers have always been something of a status symbol.
   在创意行业，日本设计师设计的服装一直是有身份的标志。
10. Many Chinese are first-time car buyers and see owning a new vehicle as a status symbol.
    很多中国人都是首次购车，他们认为拥有新车是一种社会地位的象征。
11. The wedding works as a status symbol, like a marker of where you stand in the society, he added.
    他说：婚礼是一个身份的象征，标志着你在社会中的地位。
12. Once upon a time, flip phones were the ultimate status symbol.
    从前，翻盖手机是社会地位的终极象征。
13. For many of them, having women serve as their private protection& not men – is the ultimate status symbol.
    对他们中的许多人来说，让女性而不是男性担任他们的私人保镖，是最高的社会地位象征。
14. Owning a property on Hainan has become a status symbol.
    在海南拥有房产已成为身份的标志。
15. There might have been a time when being a director was a great status symbol.
    或许，担任董事一度是一种重要的身份象征。
16. A lot of sons remained an important status symbol for the men.
    儿子成群仍然是那些男人们的一种重要的社会地位象征。
17. A businessman's luxe designer handbag is a status symbol, showing he appreciates-and can afford-fine things.
    生意人手中奢华的特制手袋，为其生份地位象征。显示他对精品的鉴赏及购买能力。
18. Caring for the environment should be a bigger status symbol than driving a car.
    关心环境应当比拥有汽车更能体现人的身份。
19. Now all three of those words in the Greek are status symbol words.
    刚才用的三个形容词都是形容身份象征的。
20. McDonald's is not only fast food as the United States, but more symbolic Americans to be seen as the best choice food culture high standards and status symbol.
    麦当劳不仅被视为美国的快餐，而且更为象征性地被视为美国人的最佳选择、饮食文化的高标准、地位的象征。
21. The Maybach has been adopted as the ultimate status symbol by Russia's super-rich.
    迈巴赫被视作俄国超级富豪的”终极身份象征“。
22. Give them a status symbol and you can't go wrong.
    给他们象征身分的东西是不会错的。
23. Love of classical music is carried like a status symbol.
    喜欢古典音乐是社会公认的身份标志。
24. He only bought the yacht as a status symbol he hates sailing.
    他买游艇只是为了显示身分&其实他根本不喜欢玩游艇。
25. They value coffins as a status symbol and a spiritual way of remembering the deceased's job or personality.
    他们将棺材视为死者社会地位及生前职业或人格的纪念和象征。
26. The situation here in Shanghai with car ownership serving as a status symbol is similar to the one in my wife's hometown.
    在上海买车显摆的情况和我老婆老家的情况相似。
27. At present, bone china is the master identity and status symbol.
    就在如今，骨瓷也是主人身份与地位的象征。
28. Perhaps the thief simply wanted his status symbol back.
    或许这名小偷仅仅希望要回自己的身份象征。
29. A personal chauffeur is undoubtedly a status symbol.
    雇有私人司机无疑是一种社会地位的象征。