status symbol

英 [ˈsteɪtəs sɪmbl]

美 [ˈsteɪtəs sɪmbl]

n.  社会地位与财富的象征

牛津词典

noun

• 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。

柯林斯词典

• 社会地位的象征;身份的象征
  Astatus symbolis something that a person has or owns that shows they have money or importance in society.

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。