status symbol的示例

• Language can be as much a trend and status symbol as clothing or cars, and slang has exactly that sort of social power and meaning.

• The portrait is originally displayed as his father's proudest status symbol.

• When men of letters and officials smoked, opium was cultured and a status symbol, but when the lower classes began to lie down, opium became degrading and ultimately criminal.

• A family heirloom or a newly acquired piano functioned as both status symbol and insurance policy, available as collateral to borrow money for other markers of class respectability.

• They are related to a status symbol competition with allies.

• They want to achieve a sort of status symbol.

• That is one status symbol at which nobody will cavil.

• It is very often novelty or even a status symbol.

• It is not merely a matter of establishing a status symbol for those who practise pharmacy, or of suggesting that chemists are a lesser breed.

• Having an office to oneself in this build mg is now regarded as something of a status symbol.

• Perhaps it is for those who are insecure and have sufficient money to spare, who will buy this car as a status symbol.

• This raises an important matter, because people are buying ferocious animals for no other reason than as a status symbol.

• It is foolish for people to have many credit cards just because they are often regarded as a status symbol.

• They are often secretaries, typists and hostesses, as well as being wives and a status symbol for their professional husbands.

• The jet aircraft has become a status symbol.