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

地位低的男性和女性，源丰富时尚能公平分享，匮乏时则吝啬多。

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

地位较高的参者比地位较低的参者笑更声、更少收敛己--这是灵长类动物，而非好兄弟的表现。

Some people think she married below her family.

有些人认为她嫁给了一个地位比她低的人。

She is threatening someone in a lower position.

她是在威胁一个地位较低的人。

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

而地位低的鬣狗相处的雌性鬣狗身的地位也较低。

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

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

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

另一位网友则补充道：“拒绝地位比你高的人需要真正的勇气。拒绝比你地位低的人，只会让人觉。”

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位相或更高的伴侣，而男性则倾向于选择社会经济地位相或更低的伴侣。

And that certainly characterizes many of our lower socioeconomic populations.

这然是我们许多社会经济地位较低的人口的特征。

Power also affects those lowered down the pecking order.

权力也影响那些地位较低的人。

And maybe a pie is a low-ranking dessert.

也许派是一种地位较低的甜点。

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

但玛丽社会地位较低的事实使情况变复杂。

The cartoon below explains the situation further.

同时，有人认为，语言使用中的这些差异无非是由女性在社会中的较低地位造成的。更具揭示性的是，男女之间的语言差异是由文化和社会控制的。一些社会学家和语言学家甚至声称，所谓的女性语体不仅被女性使用，也被社会中其他无权成员使用。下面的漫画进一步解释了这种情况。

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

但这种行为对地位较低的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位较低的人担任。但是亨利八世登基时，粪便男仆便成为了一个享有特权的职务。

Especially further down the pecking order.

特别是地位更低的人。

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位较低的人或物。

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

休闲旅游增多，迫使贵族时被认为社会地位较低的人们混杂在一起。

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

私人秘书是地位相低的仆人，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的地位，并且较少有机会接触到社会权力的杠杆。