僵化的社会更加嫉妒和警惕着象征地位的商品。

Ossified societies guard positional goods more, not less, jealously.

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让我们回到我们年轻的上海人那里，孙还有另外一个很重要，象征地位的附属品，皮包。

Going back to our young Shanghai native, Sun possesses another important status accessory - the man-bag.

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But if you can like, be stable enough to support the entire family, live on the Upper West Side, it's a class. It's a status symbol.

但如果你能住在上西区，让自己足够稳定，并能养活全家，那就是一种类似阶级一样的社会地位的象征了。

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And so it's kind of a status thing there.

因此，在那里，它好像是一种地位的象征。

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