0 a thing that people want to have because they think other people will admire them if they have it -- 地位的象徵；身份的象徵
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.
