in rank

基本解釋

In rank order of best to worst, here's what typically works best
按照從最佳到最劣的排序，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.
提升可以按日子預算——罔視軍官的能力——因此即使服役超過15年，同齡的軍官軍階基本上是沒有差別的。
In China, universities are in rank. Back in America, we don’t rank very much.
在中國，大學都是要排名的，而在美國，就不那么重視排名。

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."
而他們得到的回應是,“是的，的確如此，可是那些人讀的可是牛津大學,他們并不能代表,我們的普通民眾“
普林斯頓公開課 - 人性課程節(jié)選
They formed the rank and file of the republican armies in England against the rule of the king.
在反抗國王統(tǒng)治的戰(zhàn)爭中,正是他們,組成了這支共和軍。
耶魯公開課 - 政治哲學導論課程節(jié)選

Sewage rises in rank pools from broken pipes, rubbish is piling up in repulsive, fetid heaps.
ECONOMIST: Iraq