In other words, there is a hierarchy of hormones.

换句话说，荷尔蒙是有层次的。

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A hierarchy forms.

层级结构形成了。

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Such a hierarchy may also exist in plants.

这种等级结构也可能存在于植物中。

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but for most this was a unique opportunity to celebrate the beginning of holy week alongside the Church hierarchy, including the Pope.

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The natural hierarchy, then, seems to be a sort of hierarchy of intelligence or at least a hierarchy of the rational.

自然的阶级制度，似乎是一种智慧的阶级制度,或至少是理性的阶级制度。

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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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Now, a hierarchy of equity partners, non-equity partners, counsel, associates and contract attorney exists.

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The DNS consists of many machines around the world set up in a hierarchy.

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The third example builds on this last point and suggests a hierarchy of activity stream applications.

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