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

地低的男性和女性，当水资源丰能公平分享，匮乏则吝啬得多。

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

地较高的参与者比地较低的参与者笑得更大声、更少收敛自己--这是灵长类动物，而非好兄弟的表现。

She is threatening someone in a lower position.

她是在威胁一个地较低的人。

Some people think she married below her family.

有些人认为她嫁给了一个地比她低的人。

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

地低的鬣狗光是从压力中恢复过来就花费很多间，就意味着它们不将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.

而与地低的鬣狗相处的雌性鬣狗自身的地也较低。

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

另一网友则补充道：“拒绝地比你高的人需要真正的勇气。拒绝比你地低的人，人觉得自大。”

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

实际情况是，女性在择偶倾向于选择社经济地相当或更高的伴侣，而男性则倾向于选择社经济地相当或更低的伴侣。

And that certainly characterizes many of our lower socioeconomic populations.

这当然是我们许多社经济地较低的人口的特征。

Power also affects those lowered down the pecking order.

权力也影响那些地较低的人。

And maybe a pie is a low-ranking dessert.

也许派是一种地较低的甜点。

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

但玛丽社地较低的事实使情况变得复杂。

The cartoon below explains the situation further.

同，有人认为，语言使用中的这些差异无非是由女性在社中的较低地造成的。更具揭示性的是，男女之间的语言差异是由文化和社控制的。一些社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，粪便男仆是由社地较低的人担任。但是当亨利八世登基，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得或社地较低的人或物。

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

休闲旅游增多，迫使贵族与当被认为社地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.

私人秘书是地相当低的仆人，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，少数群体在社中处于较低的地，并且较少有机接触到社权力的杠杆。