It is also generally accepted in some developing countries that car ownership is a symbol of personal status such as wealth, power and social prestige.

在一些发展中国家，人们也普遍认为拥有汽车是财富、权力和社会声望等个人地位的象征。

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Of course, people have been keeping personal status trackers for hundreds of years—they just called them journals.

别忘了，人类记录个人状态已经有几百年的历史了 —— 那就是写日记。

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Twitter started as a way to issue personal status updates to your friends, but is morphing into a search engine that allows you to tap into the "now" — what's going on now?

Twitter原先只是作为向好友发送自己状态的一种方式，现已演变成了搜索“现在”的即时搜索引擎——现在正在发生什么？

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"So we started calling for the establishment of a 'personal status law' to protect these rights, " she added.

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But Mr Denktash and Mr Clerides will have more on their minds than old disputes over territory and personal status.

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In addition, Schmidt makes use of his own personal status as a Silicon Valley rock star to gain the confidence of overawed lawmakers.

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