What they do have is a hierarchy of adjective classes that (for whatever reason) occurs in a more-or-less fixed order in English.

他们只是提供了一个不同类别形容词的层次结构，(不管有没有原因)该结构在英语中基本上是有固定顺序的。

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Senior debtholders, who rank first in the hierarchy of unsecured creditors if a bank is liquidated, have less to worry about.

在无担保债权人中，高级债券持有者在银行清算时能于第一顺位受偿，因而没有那么多的担心。

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But over the long term, exactly where countries sit in the university hierarchy will be less and less relevant, as Americans' understanding of who is "us" and who is "them" gradually changes.

从长远角度来看，世界大学排名会越来越不重要，美国人曾经认为的“我们的”和“他们的”这种态度将会逐步改变。

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But others further down the hierarchy were less fortunate.

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In this climate, the social enterprise becomes less structured, less beholden to position and hierarchy.

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Organizations that do this well have a management hierarchy plus a less formal employee innovation network.

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