The right college, I thought, was one with prestige, one with a name.

我以前认为，合适的大学一要有声望，二要有名气。

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History has shown that if a country's national prestige skyrockets, it can free itself from a conflict with an existing hegemonic power.

历史已经表明，如果一个国家的威望高涨，它就可以摆脱与一个现存霸权国家的冲突。

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If you had problems with the state, you were looked on with a certain suspicion, but that very fact gave you greater prestige in certain circles.

如果你与这个国家有了麻烦，你就会被某种怀疑的面孔盯上，但也正是如此，在某个圈子中赢得更大的声望。

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Ivan Drury, a senior analyst at Edmunds, points out the arrival of the four-door Mini Countryman kind of a station wagon, but one with a lot of prestige.

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For Chinese companies there is a certain prestige that comes with listing on a U.S. exchange, and Wall Street certainly has the incentive to keep serving up as much product as they can with investors clamoring for a piece of the well-documented emerging market growth story.

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In a non-competitive situation, subjects chose a leader with lots of prestige, who gave the most chips to the group.

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