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

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