1 N-VAR 等级制度 A hierarchy is a system of organizing people into different ranks or levels of importance, for example in society or in a company. 等级制度
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Like most other American companies with a rigid hierarchy, workers and managers had strictly defined duties.
和其他多数拥有严格等级制度的美国公司一样，这里的工人和管理人员都有界定严格的职责。
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She rose up the Tory hierarchy by the local government route.
她通过地方政府的渠道在保守党的等级制度中一步步地晋升。
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Even in the desert there was a kind of social hierarchy.
即便在沙漠中也存在某种社会等级制度。
SYN grading, ranking, social order, pecking order
2 N-COUNT-COLL [with singular or plural verb] （组织中的）掌权集团，统治集团 The hierarchy of an organization such as the Church is the group of people who manage and control it. （组织中的）掌权集团，统治集团
3 N-COUNT （思想、信仰的）等级体系，分级结构 A hierarchy of ideas and beliefs involves organizing them into a system or structure. （思想、信仰的）等级体系，分级结构 [formal]
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...the notion of 'cultural imperialism' implies a hierarchy of cultures, some of which are stronger than others. [+ of]
“文化扩张主义”意味着一种文化等级体系的存在，其中有些文化要比其他文化更强大。
Quotations
We rank ourselves by the familiar dog system, a ladderlike social arrangement wherein one individual outranks all others, the next outranks all but the first, and so on down the hierarchy Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Strong and Sensitive Cats
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence Laurence Peter The Peter Principle
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