break the ranks

基本解釋

The fierce onset of the enemy broke the ranks of the army.
敵人的猛烈攻擊致使全軍大亂。
At the end of the 1956 Summer Games in Melbourne, Australia, however, the athletes broke ranks and mingled together to celebrate the occasion.
然而，1956年在澳大利亞墨爾本舉行的夏季奧運會上，運動員打亂隊形，互相握手、擁抱，共同慶祝這一時刻。
Ursula Burns, an African-American engineer who now runs Xerox's largest division, recalls "a special spotlight put on me" when she broke into the management ranks.
阿修拉·伯恩斯——一名目前管理施樂最大部門的美國黑人工程師，回憶起當(dāng)她躋身于管理層之時“備受矚目”。

On October 6, 1981, Gamal, then seventeen, was sitting in the grandstand, eight seats away from President Anwar Sadat, at a military procession commemorating the 1973 Yom Kippur war with Israel. (His father was then the Vice-President.) Four soldiers—assassins from the radical group Egyptian Islamic Jihad—broke from the ranks and turned toward the stand, firing automatic rifles and hurling grenades.
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Over 40 of them broke ranks in the House over the climate-change bill.
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