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

位低的男性和女性，当水资源丰富时尚能公平分享，匮乏时则吝啬得多。

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

而与位低的鬣狗相处的雌性鬣狗自身的位也较低。

She is threatening someone in a lower position.

她在威胁一个位较低的人。

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

位低的鬣狗光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。

Some people think she married below her family.

有些人认为她嫁给了一个位她低的人。

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

位较高的参与位较低的参与笑得更大声、更少收敛自己--这灵长类动物，而非好兄弟的表现。

Power also affects those lowered down the pecking order.

权力也会影响那些位较低的人。

And that certainly characterizes many of our lower socioeconomic populations.

这当然我们许多社会经济位较低的人口的特征。

When a high status person is addressing a lower status person, that's when the low status person's eyes are riveted.

当位高的人对位低的人说话时，位低的人的眼睛就会被吸引。

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

但这种行为对位较低的女性来说一种冒犯。

Low SES White men were more likely to use hard drugs, smoke, and binge drink than low SES Black men.

社会经济位低的白人男性社会经济位低的黑人男性更有可能使用烈性毒品、吸烟和酗酒。

Brothers would not suffer their sisters to marry beneath them, and " sell candle and mustard in Framlingham" .

兄弟们不会允许他们的姐妹嫁给他们位低的人，并“在法拉姆灵厄姆卖蜡烛和芥末”。

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

私人秘书位相当低的仆人，其职责为权力来源服务。

DUCKWORTH: The higher status teases the lower status.

DUCKWORTH: 更高的位会挑逗较低的位。

Getting your words out fast, because you're afraid somebody will interrupt is a lower status place.

快速说出你的话，因为你害怕有人会打断你一个位较低的方。

Due to women's relative physical weakness and lower educational background, they do primarily the low-status, low-paying jobs.

由于女性身体相对虚弱，受教育程度较低，她们主要事位低、工资低的工作。

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由女性在社会中的较低位造成的。更具揭示性的，男女之间的语言差异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。

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会位较低的人或物。

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

最初，粪便男仆由社会位较低的人担任。但当亨利八世登基时，粪便男仆便成为了一个享有特权的职务。

And, well, if they're rude to others, especially to those who have a lower social status, then they're overprivileged and, well, simply rude.

那么，如果他们对他人，尤其对社会位较低的人无礼，那么他们就特权过高，粗鲁无礼。