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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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“。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。