He is a former anti-apartheid activist who is well connected in the ruling African National Congress, and his lengthy case frequently disturbed the political hierarchy.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

Well, my usual style of programming would be to implement the one that's lowest down in the hierarchy near the bottom.

一般我的编程风格是,先构建等级中最低的东西,也就是靠近地层的东西。

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It was a threat to hierarchy and the South became quite distinctively a very hierarchical society more on that in just a second.

民主对阶级制度是一大威胁,相对于北方,南方的阶级制度,更根深蒂固

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But Blatter and many in the football governing hierarchy have opposed such changes, saying they halt the free-flowing movement of the game and do not eliminate all mistakes.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

Yet each of us will be confined it seems to only one task in the social hierarchy.

但我们每一个人都会被约束,这在社会阶层中看来似乎仅是一项任务。

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Is it in the collective memory that people remember three centuries later that the Catholic Church was identified, at least as a hierarchy, with the Vichy Regime in World war II?

到二战时 宗教战争已经过去了三百年,在村民的大众记忆中是否因为等级制度,仍将天主教和二战中的维希政府视为一丘之貉

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Socrates tells us repeatedly that justice in the city consists of each member, each citizen fulfilling his task in the social division of labor, in the social hierarchy.

苏格拉底不断地告诉我们,城市正义的组合,是每一位成员，每一位公民都善尽,他们在社会劳动分工，或说是社会阶层中的职责。

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There is, in the first set of dialogues, a distinct hierarchy of characters, you might say, who we see later on express those distinctive features of the soul and the city.

在第一段对话中，可以明显地看出角色间的尊卑地位，你也可以说这些人,所表达出的独特性格,正是灵魂与城邦所具备。

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He did not ever imagine the abandonment of the table of ranks, which set everybody in a hierarchy, not for a minute-- we're talking about the end of the end of the 17th and 18th century.

他绝不会想要抛弃一个,把每个人都划分阶层的等级社会,从来没有动过这个念头,我们说的是在十七世纪末到十八世纪初

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