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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。