rank
n. 地位,级别; 军衔; 普通士兵; 等级; 成员; 队列
v. 分等级; 排列
adj. 难闻的; 糟糕的,疯长的
Someone's rank is the position or grade that they have in an organization.
He eventually rose to the rank of captain...
他终于升职当上了船长。
The former head of counter-intelligence had been stripped of his rank and privileges.
反情报机构的前任长官被革职并剥夺了特权。
Someone's rank is the social class, especially the high social class, that they belong to.
Each rank of the peerage was represented...
每个贵族阶级都有代表。
He must be treated as a hostage of high rank, not as a common prisoner.
必须把他当成高级人质来对待,而不能像对待普通囚犯那样。
If an official organization ranks someone or something 1st, 5th, or 50th, for example, they calculate that the person or thing has that position on a scale. You can also say that someone or something ranks 1st, 5th, or 50th, for example.
The report ranks the UK 20th out of 22 advanced nations...
报告中把英国排在22个先进国家中的第20位。
He was at the time ranked 10th in the world and had a regular place in the Swedish Davis Cup team...
他那时世界排名第10,并且是瑞典戴维斯杯队的主力队员。
If you say that someone or something ranks high or low on a scale or if you rank them high or low, you are saying how good or important you think they are.
His prices rank high among those of other contemporary photographers...
在当代摄影师当中,他的要价很高。
Investors ranked South Korea high among Asian nations...
在亚洲各国当中,投资者很看重韩国。
If you say that someone or something ranks with a group of famous people or things, you mean that they are extremely good and should be included in that group.
...a performance of heroic calibre that must rank with the most memorable in international rugby...
必被列为国际橄榄球赛中最令人难忘的一场荡气回肠的比赛
As a novel, Nineteen Eighty-four hardly ranks with the greats.
作为一部小说,《一九八四》很难被列为杰作。
The ranks of a group or organization are the people who belong to it.
There were some misgivings within the ranks of the media too...
媒体内部也存在一些疑虑。
The General Assembly welcomed five new members to its ranks.
联合国大会对5个新成员国的加入表示了欢迎。
The ranks are the ordinary members of an organization, especially of the armed forces.
Top military leaders say there have been reports of demoralization in the ranks...
最高军事指挥说有报告称士兵中出现了士气低落。
Most store managers have worked their way up through the ranks.
大多数商店经理都是由普通店员干起,一步步升上来的。
A rank of people or things is a row of them.
Ranks of police in riot gear stood nervously by...
一队队防暴警察紧张待命。
She continued to smile at the ranks of cameras on their doorstep.
她依旧对着门口的一排排照相机微笑着。
A taxi rank is a place on a city street where taxis park when they are available for hire.
The man led the way to the taxi rank...
那人带路来到了出租汽车候客处。
He walked towards the first taxi on the rank.
他朝着停车处的第一辆出租车走去。
You can use rank to emphasize a bad or undesirable quality that exists in an extreme form.
He called it 'rank hypocrisy' that the government was now promoting equal rights.
他把目前政府提倡平等权利的举措称为“彻头彻尾的伪善”。
You can describe something as rank when it has a strong and unpleasant smell.
The kitchen was rank with the smell of drying uniforms.
厨房内充斥着烘干制服的难闻气味。
...the rank smell of unwashed clothes.
脏衣服所发出的臭味
If you say that a member of a group or organization breaks ranks, you mean that they disobey the instructions of their group or organization.
'Even the President's staunchest supporters have some issues where they simply must break ranks,' says Senator Lott...
“即使是总统最忠实的拥护者在某些事情上也会不听指令,”参议员洛特说。
Britain appears unlikely to break ranks with other members of the European Union.
英国看起来不会与欧盟的其他成员反目。
If you say that the members of a group close ranks, you mean that they are supporting each other only because their group is being criticized.
Conservative MPs intend to put aside their differences over Europe and close ranks behind the Prime Minister...
保守党下院议员打算暂且搁置他们在欧洲问题上的分歧,团结起来支持首相。
Institutions tend to close ranks when a member has been accused of misconduct.
当其中某成员被谴责失职时,机构往往会抱成一团。
If you experience something, usually something bad, that other people have experienced, you can say that you have joined their ranks .
Last month, 370,000 Americans joined the ranks of the unemployed...
上个月,有37万美国人加入了失业者的行列。
If one of the people in a competition is described as a rank outsider, they are considered to have very little chance of winning.
The rank outsiders, Cameroon, beat the defending champions, Argentina, by one goal to nil.
本不被看好的喀麦隆队却以1比0击败了卫冕冠军阿根廷队。
If you say that someone in authority pulls rank, you mean that they unfairly force other people to do what they want because of their higher rank or position.
The Captain pulled rank and made his sergeant row the entire way.
上校倚仗权势让他的中士划船划了一路。
1. a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another;
2. relative status;
3. the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army);
4. position in a social hierarchy;
5. the body of members of an organization or group;
1. take or have a position relative to others;
2. assign a rank or rating to;
3. take precedence or surpass others in rank
1. very fertile; producing profuse growth;
2. very offensive in smell or taste;
3. conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible;
4. complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers;
5. growing profusely;
class, degree, grade, rank
这些名词均有"级,等级"之意。
row, queue, line, rank, file
这些名词均含"列,队,排"之意。
break rank (或 ranks)
(军警)解散队列;打乱队形;溃散
close ranks
(士兵,警察)靠拢,集合
keep rank
(士兵,警察)保持队形
rise through (或 from) the ranks
(列兵,军士)升为军官
pull rank
弄权:利用某人的高级职位谋求利益
He was demoted to the rank of ordinary soldier.
他被降为普通一兵.
The payment offered to the rank and file is extremely poor.
列兵的待遇极低.
She was lifted from a captain to the rank of major.
她从上尉提升为少校.
He is a physicist of the first rank.
他是一流的物理学家.
He was reduced in rank.
他被降级了.