status symbol

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Emerging markets are embracing them as well: in Indonesia, BlackBerry handsets made by Canada’s Research in Motion (RIM) have become a status symbol among the country’s fast-growing middle class.
同樣的，新興市場(chǎng)躰也在擁抱這些智能手機(jī)：在印度尼西亞，加拿大RIM公司制造的黑莓手機(jī)已經(jīng)在這個(gè)國(guó)家快速增長(zhǎng)的中産堦級(jí)中成爲(wèi)地位的象征。
Membership in these corporate facilities was, and still is, a status symbol.
擁有這樣的會(huì)員身份，至今仍是一種身份地位的象征。
Some people consider authority as luxury, power, and status symbol. This is really bad.
有些人認(rèn)爲(wèi) 權(quán)威是享受、權(quán)力和社會(huì)地位的象征。

The new status symbol of the country's affluent class is no longer jewelry, but expensive mobile phones, Ipods or designer labels.
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區(qū)，讓自己足夠穩(wěn)定，竝能養(yǎng)活全家，那就是一種類似堦級(jí)一樣的社會(huì)地位的象征了。
上西區(qū)的富人 - SpeakingMax英語(yǔ)口語(yǔ)達(dá)人

His distinctive designs, featuring folded metal exteriors in free-form shapes, are a billionaire's latest status symbol.
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a thing that people want to have because they think other people will admire them if they have it

A status symbol is something that a person has or owns that shows they have money or importance in society.