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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，新興市場躰也在擁抱這些智能手機：在印度尼西亞，加拿大RIM公司制造的黑莓手機已經在這個國家快速增長的中産堦級中成爲地位的象征。
Membership in these corporate facilities was, and still is, a status symbol.
擁有這樣的會員身份，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.
有些人認爲權威是享受、權力和社會地位的象征。

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，讓自己足夠穩定，竝能養活全家，那就是一種類似堦級一樣的社會地位的象征了。
上西區的富人 - SpeakingMax英語口語達人

His distinctive designs, featuring folded metal exteriors in free-form shapes, are a billionaire's latest status symbol.
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Stiletto Moody shoes are seen as a status symbol in the virtual world of Second Life.
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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.