The general rose from the ranks.

将军出身行伍。

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Infected by a bite from Little Thomas, Uncle Percy rose to join the ranks of the walking dead.

受托马斯的一咬得影响，玻西叔叔也加入了活跳尸地行列。

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Jones served for more than 40 years in the U. S. military. He rose in the ranks from leading a platoon in Vietnam to serving as the supreme allied commander in Europe for the NATO alliance.

琼斯将军在美军服务四十多年，他在越战期间担任排长，逐步升为北大西洋公约组织的驻欧洲盟军最高统帅。

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She was promoted from marketing director to president of the feminine products division in 1992 and steadily rose through the ranks to her current position.

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A. as well as a lawyer, graduating from law school at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1961, and eventually rose through the ranks of Colorado politics.

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