Rank

(noun.) a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another; 'the entrance was guarded by ranks of policemen'.

(noun.) relative status; 'his salary was determined by his rank and seniority'.

(verb.) take precedence or surpass others in rank.

(verb.) take or have a position relative to others; 'This painting ranks among the best in the Western World'.

(adj.) growing profusely; 'rank jungle vegetation' .

(adj.) very fertile; producing profuse growth; 'rank earth' .

(adj.) very offensive in smell or taste; 'a rank cigar' .

安编辑

• If the guests chose to partake of what was served, he saw no objection; but it was served for the maintenance of his rank. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• I felt some hesitation in suggesting rank as high as the colonelcy of a regiment, feeling somewhat doubtful whether I would be equal to the position. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• A man of any rank may, without any reproach, abstain totally from tasting such liquors. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• By the rules of precedency, a captain in the navy ranks with a colonel in the army; but he does not rank with him in the common estimation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Devils gathered their legions in his sight; their dim, discrowned, and tarnished armies passed rank and file before him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The portly gentleman, looking round to see that nobody of rank observed him, sat down; he muttered--Ah, really, well now, God bless my soul. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Among nations of hunters, such as the native tribes of North America, age is the sole foundation of rank and precedency. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• While the frictional appliance is still employed in medicine, it ranks with the flint axe and the tinder-box in industrial obsolescence. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• A brilliant liter ary man of the present day considers that places in the first ranks of literature are reserved for the doctrinally heterodox. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• By the rules of precedency, a captain in the navy ranks with a colonel in the army; but he does not rank with him in the common estimation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Indeed throughout the Republic he allows the lower ranks to fade into the distance. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Millers were detailed from the ranks to run the mills along the line of the army. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I am only a simple Norfolk squire, but there is not a man in England who ranks his family honour more highly than I do. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The inferior ranks of people must, in that country, suffer patiently the usage which their superiors think proper to give them. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Sherman ranked him as a brigadier-general. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Now look at the Galeopithecus or so-called flying lemur, which was formerly ranked among bats, but is now believed to belong to the Insectivora. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Even Ireland has a few animals, now generally regarded as varieties, but which have been ranked as species by some zoologists. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Hence the amount of difference is one very important criterion in settling whether two forms should be ranked as species or varieties. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• All of them ranked me in the old army, and Sherman and Buell did as brigadiers. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Then a soul which forgets cannot be ranked among genuine philosophic natures; we must insist that the philosopher should have a good memory? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The worst excuse a soldier can make for declining service is that he once ranked the commander he is ordered to report to. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Abelard, a man of splendid talents, and ranking as the first debater of his time, became timid, irresolute, and distrustful of his powers. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• To-day it stands a triumph of human ingenuity, ranking in importance with the rotary web-perfecting press, and is probably the most ingenious piece of practical mechanism in existence. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

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