Kasambala says such allegations eroded popular support for the Somali government, while boosting the ranks of insurgents.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

Not only is expulsion from the ranks of the guardians penalty for cowardice, but Socrates suggests there should be, listen to this, " "erotic rewards for those who excel in bravery."

不只是要排除,各类守护者视为不良行为的懦弱，苏格拉底更暗示应要有，听听这个，“色情作为对最勇敢者的奖赏“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Another point about this sort of ambivalence about being czar is that he often made a point of choosing his most trusted advisors from the ranks of commoners and gave them the right to become titled after a certain amount of time after a certain amount of time in the royal bureaucracy.

他作为沙皇矛盾的另一点是,他最信任的顾问,常常是从普通民众中选出来的,而且经过一段时间后,他会在皇家官僚机构中给他们一个头衔

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The conflicts weigh on President Obama as he prepares to join the ranks of Nobel Peace Prize recipients men and women like Nelson Mandela;

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

He was a master of English style and prose, and his work ranks among the very greatest in this or any other language.

他是英文写作的大师，他的作品不管在哪种语言里,都是佼佼者。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The war weighs on President Obama as he joins the distinguished ranks of Nobel Peace Prize recipients men and women such as Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King,Jr., and Aung San Suu Kyi.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

He was beginning to join ranks with those early seventeenth-century English Protestants who imposed upon themselves rigorous and strict codes of behavior and self-denial, and who were increasingly being called by their enemies Puritans.

他要开始加入,17世纪早期英国新教徒的行列,那些人把严格的行为准则和自我否认,强加到自己身上，还不断被敌人称为清教徒。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Growing unemployment poses bigger challenge provide a further challenge to the Thai Government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, The growing ranks of the unemployed which came to power in December of last year.

VOA: standard.2009.03.09

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

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

It ranks 158 on the 180-nation list of most corrupt countries, as judged by Transparency International.

VOA: standard.2009.08.10

This new study combined a large number of previous studies and concluded that a lack of social interactions ranks right up with smoking,obesity, and alcoholism as a risk factor for death.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

But in terms of this congressional election year, public opinion polls show that the war in Afghanistan still ranks well below the economy and jobs as a top issue for U.S.voters.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

The guerrilla group led by international fugitive Joseph Kony is perhaps best known for its tactic of abducting children to replenish its ranks and for its leader's mysterious claims to being a prophet of God.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27