小测验:选择正确的单词
rank [ræŋk]
基本释义
- n. 等级,排,横列,队伍,阶级
a. 繁茂的,恶臭的,讨厌的,下流的
vt. 排列,归类于
词形变化
比较级:rank·er, rank·est
名 词:rank'ness
副 词:rank'ly
常用短语
- rank and file
普通士兵,民众,老百姓
- taxi rank
计程汽车车站,出租汽车总称
参考例句
- He was promoted to the rank of colonel.
他被提拔成了上校。 - He will be treated as an official of the senior rank.
他将受到像高级官员那样的待遇。 - exalted the shepherd to the rank of grand vizier.
把牧羊人提升为高贵的大臣 - troops in serried ranks.
排列密集的军队 - Five girls in rank came stepping down the plank.
5个姑娘一列踏着木板走下来。
英英解释
- take or have a position relative to others
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- This painting ranks among the best in the Western World
- assign a rank or rating to
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grade, order, place, range, rank, rate
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- how would you rank these students?
- The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide
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- take precedence or surpass others in rank
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outrank, rank
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- a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another
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- the entrance was guarded by ranks of policemen
- relative status
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- his salary was determined by his rank and seniority
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- the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army)
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rank, rank and file
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- the strike was supported by the union rank and file
- he rose from the ranks to become a colonel
- position in a social hierarchy
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rank, social rank, social station, social status
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- the British are more aware of social status than Americans are
- the body of members of an organization or group
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membership, rank
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- they polled their membership
- they found dissension in their own ranks
- he joined the ranks of the unemployed
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- very fertile; producing profuse growth
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- very offensive in smell or taste
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- conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
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crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank
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- a crying shame
- an egregious lie
- flagrant violation of human rights
- a glaring error
- gross ineptitude
- gross injustice
- rank treachery
- complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
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absolute, downright, out-and-out, rank, right-down, sheer
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- absolute freedom
- an absolute dimwit
- a downright lie
- out-and-out mayhem
- an out-and-out lie
- a rank outsider
- many right-down vices
- got the job through sheer persistence
- sheer stupidity
- growing profusely
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