Low-status men and women would share fairly when water was plentiful, but were stingier when water was scarce.

地低男性和女性，当水资源丰富时尚能公平分享，匮乏时则吝。

Higher-status participants laughed more loudly and with less inhibition than lower-status ones-primates, not mates.

地较高参与者比地较低参与者笑更大声、更少收敛自己--这是灵长类动物，而非好兄弟表现。

She is threatening someone in a lower position.

她是在威胁一个地较低人。

Some people think she married below her family.

有些人认为她嫁给了一个地比她低人。

All that time spent alone recovering from stress means that the lower-ranking hyenas aren't spending their time courting females.

地低鬣狗光是从压力中恢复过来就会花费很时间，就意味着它们不会将时间花在讨好雌性鬣狗上。

And the females that they do manage to spend time with are themselves also of lower rank.

而与地低鬣狗相处雌性鬣狗自身地也较低。

Another added: " Refusing a boss takes real courage. Refusing someone beneath you just feels smug."

另一网友则补充道：“拒绝地比你高人需要真气。拒绝比你地低人，只会让人觉自大。”

The reality is women mate socioeconomically horizontally and up, men horizontally and down.

实际情况是，女性在择偶时倾向于选择社会经济地相当或更高伴侣，而男性则倾向于选择社会经济地相当或更低伴侣。

And that certainly characterizes many of our lower socioeconomic populations.

这当然是我们许社会经济地较低人口特征。

Power also affects those lowered down the pecking order.

权力也影响那些地较低人。

And maybe a pie is a low-ranking dessert.

也许派是一种地较低甜点。

But the knowledge of Mary's social inferiority complicated matters.

但玛丽社会地较低事实使情况变复杂。

The cartoon below explains the situation further.

同时，有人认为，语言使用中这些差异无非是由女性在社会中较低地造成。更具揭示性是，男女之间语言差异是由文化和社会控制。一些社会学家和语言学家甚至声称，所谓女性语体不仅被女性使用，也被社会中其他无权成员使用。下面漫画进一步解释了这种情况。

But the act was offensive to a woman of lower rank.

但这种行为对地较低女性来说是一种冒犯。

While originally a role for people of low status when Henry the eighth became King of England, it became a privileged position.

最初，粪便男仆是由社会地较低人担任。但是当亨利八世登基时，粪便男仆便成为了一个享有特权职务。

Especially further down the pecking order.

特别是地更低人。

Next, “below” and “beneath” can refer to people or things that are unworthy in some way or of a lower social ranking.

其次，below 和 beneath 可以指在某种程度上不值或社会地较低人或物。

Leisure travel expanded, forcing aristocrats to mingle with those who were considered social inferiors at the time.

休闲旅游增，迫使贵族与当时被认为社会地较低人们混杂在一起。

Private secretaries are servants of a rather low order, whose business is to serve sources of power.

私人秘书是地相当低仆人，其职责是为权力来源服务。

Second, minorities occupy a lower status in society and have less access to the levers of societal power.

其次，少数群体在社会中处于较低地，并且较少有机会接触到社会权力杠杆。