in the ranks

基本解释

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.
一种解释是由于2006年一位怪圈制造常客的自杀和其它两位怪圈制造者的死亡。同时恶作剧者队伍中的人对制作怪圈感到厌倦也是原因之一。
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.
这项研究一定是为了把“老年人喜欢快乐美好的回忆”和“手足争斗不会和睦相处”结合起来并且放在明显的科学发现这一行列。
But the satire was rooted in a statistical fact: in the ranks of captured and confessed terrorists, engineers and engineering students are significantly overrepresented.
不过这个有讽刺意味的笑话却是建立在一个统计学事实之上的：在被逮捕和自首的恐怖主义份子中，工程师和工科学生明显的过多了。

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.
他是英文写作的大师，他的作品不管在哪种语言里,都是佼佼者。
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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.
他绝不会想要抛弃一个,把每个人都划分阶层的等级社会,从来没有动过这个念头,我们说的是在十七世纪末到十八世纪初
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Notably, China has risen in the ranks from 8th place in 2006 to fourth in 2010.
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