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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What it does for him is allow him to buy his aunt this symbol of a middle-class American domesticity, and he is a happy participant in this new purchase.

这让他能够给阿姨,买这个美国中产阶级家庭生活的象征物，而他也很高兴能这么做。

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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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He'd gone to Kentucky and drunk lots of Bourbon once, he carried an umbrella, that sort of middle class symbol of protection, and he is chased from the throne in 1848.

他去过肯塔基州,嗜好波旁威士忌,他有一顶保护伞,即他是中产阶级的象征,他在1848年被王室追捕

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