| 释义 |
ˌrank-and-ˈfiler orig. U.S.
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
A member of the rank and file; an ordinary member (of a group, society, etc.).
1940Sat. Even. Post 27 Jan. 82/1 Others assert he never in his life toiled as an active rank-and-filer. 1943Sun (Baltimore) 1 June 10/2 Many of the AFL transit rank and filers—perhaps even many of their union leaders—agree at heart with Messrs. Green and Katz. 1950E. H. Carr Bolshevik Rev. I. ii. 33 Lenin's followers were rank-and-filers with scarcely a known name among them. 1959Encounter Aug. 74/2 No ‘ordinary people’, no John Doe, Tommy Atkins, rank-and-filer, man-in-the-street. 1966New Statesman 13 May 680/1 Some 30 members of the union's executive are sea-going ex-rank-and-filers. a1974R. Crossman Diaries (1976) II. 63 Three of the rank-and-filers were ultra-left-wingers and my part of the programme developed into a futile shouting match. 1978S. Brill Teamsters i. 25 Barkett was more involved in the union than most rank-and-filers. |