| 单词 | rank |
| 释义 | rank I. 1. chiefly dialect a. b. 2. a. < rank weeds > < seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good — Gen 41:5 (Authorized Version) > < among the forms of rank plant life common in the hot humidity … were great tree ferns — R.W.Murray > b. < its garden was … rank, too thickly crowded with trees and bushes and plants — Rebecca West > 3. < objected to his rank language > 4. obsolete 5. chiefly dialect a. b. 6. a. < must lecture him on his rank disloyalty — David Walden > b. < that is … the opinion of a rank outsider — G.W.Johnson > < most of the actors were not big names, but rank beginners — Dean Jennings > 7. archaic a. b. < the ewes, being rank, in the end of autumn turned to the rams — Shakespeare > 8. < wreathed in smoke from a rank cigar — Ralph Watson > < the heat seemed to purify the rank air — Willa Cather > 9. < the rank wounds of the dying men > 10. < a rank modus > < a rank rate of interest > 11. Synonyms: see flagrant II. III. 1. a. < a rank of marble pillars — Sax Rohmer > < ranks of parcel lockers — Lewis Mumford > < great pines, whose ranks climbed to the mountaintops — Agnes M. Cleaveland > b. c. Britain < a taxi at the rank just at the end of the street — Katherine Mansfield > 2. < the men and women … were standing in two separate ranks — Ivor Jones > 3. < the company break ranks — Lafcadio Hearn > 4. a. < armored ranks of men-at-arms — John Reed > — compare file b. ranks plural c. ranks plural < he rose from the ranks > 5. < excluded from the ranks of organized labor — Oscar Handlin > < would consider any opportunity … provided it is in your executive ranks — Phoenix Flame > < keep the ranks of fire fighters thin — Richard Ginder > 6. < each player's pieces are placed on his first rank and his pawns on his second rank > 7. a. < occupied a particularly high rank among the dramas — Matthew Arnold > < declining to consider him a novelist of the first rank — Granville Hicks > b. < soon took rank as a leading attorney — J.D.Hicks > c. < many of the institutions … maintained and emphasized the privileges of rank — Abram Kardiner > < his distinction lay in office, not in rank — John Buchan > d. < visiting lecturer in psychology … with rank of full professor — W.H.Hale > 8. a. b. c. < appointed with the rank of ambassador > < office of cabinet rank > 9. a. b. 10. 11. IV. transitive verb 1. < gazed lazily out a window above the ranked heads — William Faulkner > < the battalion, perfectly ranked, listened to the citation > 2. < the hills ranked with apple trees — John Dos Passos > < the ranch and chuck wagons were ranked out of the weather — Luke Short > < carefully ranked the little figurines along the mantlepiece > 3. < seldom given to ranking the concerns of others as high as his own — M.C.Bauer > < were asked to rank the instructor — W.C.Allee > < a population of 205,000 ranks the city third — Howell Walker > 4. 5. < the chairman ranks all other officers — A.J.Liebling > < did not know who ranked whom in the new … setup — Newsweek > 6. Scotland intransitive verb 1. 2. < English ranks as the most important and essential subject in the curriculum of our public schools — Education Digest > < the artisan … ranks no doubt lower than the professional man — G.L.Dickinson > < the profession of religion … ranks above all the other professions — Virginia Woolf > 3. 4. < ordered by the ranking head of the provincial government — Marjory S. Douglas > V. 1. 2. |
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