See how stupidly they kow-tow to persons higher in the hierarchy.

瞧他们对上级唯命是从的样子是多么的愚蠢。

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Now, it's been assumed that primates and some other mammals stood alone at the top of the hierarchy of cognitive evolution.

现在，人们默认灵长类动物和其他一些哺乳动物独自站在认知进化等级的顶端。

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It's lower on the hierarchy.

它在等级的下面部分。

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"One of the key elements here was flattening the hierarchy in the operating room so that everybody, the scrub tech,the nurse, the surgeon,the anesthesiologist, whomever it is in the operating room could bring up any concerns they had about the patient."

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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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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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The hierarchy listed above can be couched in different ways, but it should not be lost.

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He was for most Catholics a remote figure at the far end of the hierarchy.

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After that, Deng's heir apparent built a network of his Shanghai allies within the hierarchy.

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