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单词 front-ranker
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front-ranker
front-ranker n. a person (ship, etc.) of the highest class or of leading position.
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1905 Westm. Gaz. 25 Mar. 15/1 The eagerness which was displayed by some ‘front-rankers’ to get a ‘line’ of the Ceylon Pearl Syndicate's underwriting.
1914 in E. C. Barnes Alfred Yarrow (1923) xxvii. 260 The Firedrake and Lurcher were looked upon as two front-rankers.
1928 Manch. Guardian Weekly 7 Dec. Suppl. p. vi/1 It is a long time since a year's verse list was led by so many front rankers.
1963 Times 9 Feb. 10/5 London's light operatic conductors, at a time when Ivan Caryll, Herman Finck, Jimmy Glover, and Alfred Dove were front-rankers.
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