Because of decline in his family social standing, diminution of the times, and weakness of his health, his ambition to succeed was shattered. All these caused Li He to reflect on life, fate and death.

家世的衰微、时代的局限，身体的羸弱，将他经世治国的理想抱负击个粉碎，所有这些促使他开始对人生、命运、死亡进行思索。

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Poorer families can either get a dowry or maybe even marry into a family of higher social standing.

穷的家庭能得到嫁妆，或者甚至可能嫁入一个有较高社会地位的家庭。

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Is it money, social standing, family ties that hold you? And where — if anywhere — is love?

是不是金钱、社会地位、家庭对你而言很重要，那么你把爱情放在个什么位置呢？

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The driver who has caused the accident quits the scene lest it undermine her family's social standing.

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The link between family size and social standing is a subject close to my heart and goes back to my own childhood in Karakore, a small town in Ethiopia, where I grew up the eldest of seven children.

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There is a social cost to standing up for your beliefs and that social cost can be exacted within the family, the community or the workplace.

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