The new status symbol of the country's affluent class is no longer jewelry, but expensive mobile phones, Ipods or designer labels.

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This is a sign of my economic status: I don't have to work. It is middle and lower-class women who do not get to observe purdah in this way.

但这恰好是我经济地位的标志：,我不需要工作，只有中下阶层的女人,才像这样不遵守深闺的习俗。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

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。

上西区的富人 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

One of the sentences that I'll repeat throughout the class is that happiness is much more contingent on our state of mind than our status or the state of our bank account.

有一句话我会在课程中经常引用,快乐由我们的精神状态而定，而不是社会地位或银行存款。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

A gentleman had class, rank, and status, and you better recognize it.

有一定阶级,地位,等级,还要被人认可

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Economics deals with the transactions involving the production and distribution of wealth sociology with the transaction governing status and class anthropology with the domain of culture and so on.

经济学处理,包含财富生产与分配的交易,社会学处理,管治地位与阶级的问题,人类学专注于文化，依此类推。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选