in rank

基本解释

In rank order of best to worst, here's what typically works best
按照从最佳到最劣的排序，典型的最佳包括
Promotions can be anticipated almost to the day— regardless of an officer’s competence—so that there is essentially no difference in rank among officers the same age, even after 15 years of service.
提升可以按日子预算——罔视军官的能力——因此即使服役超过15年，同龄的军官军阶基本上是没有差别的。
In China, universities are in rank. Back in America, we don’t rank very much.
在中国，大学都是要排名的，而在美国，就不那么重视排名。

Human Rights Watch says the secretary should urge the government in Kinshasa to prosecute all military personnel, regardless of rank, who have committed serious human rights abuses.
And response back is "Well, yes, we had people at the table, but they were Oxford educated and they didn't represent the rank-and-file people in my culture."
而他们得到的回应是,“是的，的确如此，可是那些人读的可是牛津大学,他们并不能代表,我们的普通民众“
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They formed the rank and file of the republican armies in England against the rule of the king.
在反抗国王统治的战争中,正是他们,组成了这支共和军。
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Sewage rises in rank pools from broken pipes, rubbish is piling up in repulsive, fetid heaps.
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