in the ranks

基本解釋

The suicide of one of the chief circle-makers in 2006 and the death of two others, as well as boredom in the ranks of pranksters, have all been cited.
一種解釋是由于2006年一位怪圈制造常客的自殺和其它兩位怪圈制造者的死亡。同時(shí)惡作劇者隊(duì)伍中的人對(duì)制作怪圈感到厭倦也是原因之一。
This study is sure to join "old people prefer happy memories" and "siblings who fight don't get along" in the ranks of obvious scientific "discoveries.
這項(xiàng)研究一定是為了把“老年人喜歡快樂美好的回憶”和“手足爭(zhēng)斗不會(huì)和睦相處”結(jié)合起來并且放在明顯的科學(xué)發(fā)現(xiàn)這一行列。
But the satire was rooted in a statistical fact: in the ranks of captured and confessed terrorists, engineers and engineering students are significantly overrepresented.
不過這個(gè)有諷刺意味的笑話卻是建立在一個(gè)統(tǒng)計(jì)學(xué)事實(shí)之上的：在被逮捕和自首的恐怖主義份子中，工程師和工科學(xué)生明顯的過多了。

Military observers say Mr.Medvedev's rearmament program is designed in part to offset dissatisfaction in the ranks with a Kremlin plan to downsize Russia's armed forces.
He was a master of English style and prose, and his work ranks among the very greatest in this or any other language.
他是英文寫作的大師，他的作品不管在哪種語言里,都是佼佼者。
耶魯公開課 - 政治哲學(xué)導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
He did not ever imagine the abandonment of the table of ranks, which set everybody in a hierarchy, not for a minute-- we're talking about the end of the end of the 17th and 18th century.
他絕不會(huì)想要拋棄一個(gè),把每個(gè)人都劃分階層的等級(jí)社會(huì),從來沒有動(dòng)過這個(gè)念頭,我們說的是在十七世紀(jì)末到十八世紀(jì)初
耶魯公開課 - 歐洲文明課程節(jié)選

Notably, China has risen in the ranks from 8th place in 2006 to fourth in 2010.
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