hierarchy

Like most other American companies with a rigid hierarchy, workers and managers had strictly defined duties.

像大多数其他等级制度森严的美国公司一样，工人和管理人员都有严格界定的职责。

Digital technology also makes it easier for people to co-ordinate their activities without resorting to hierarchy.

数字技术也使人们更容易协调他们的活动，而不用诉诸等级制度。

The church hierarchy today feels the church should reflect the social and political realities of the country.

教会统治集团如今感到教会应该反映国家的社会现实和政治现实。

My ambition was to travel upwards in the ecclesiastical hierarchy.

我的雄心是在基督教会体系内步步高升。

But there's widespread disagreement over whether breakfast should keep its top spot in the hierarchy of meals.

但是对于早餐是否应该保持在一日三餐中的首要地位，人们有不同看法。

Shamus Khan, a Columbia University psychologist, argues, a new way for the middle class to distinguish themselves from what they perceive to be the narrow tastes of those beneath them in the social hierarchy.

哥伦比亚大学心理学家沙姆斯?汗认为，这是中产阶级将自己与他们认为处于社会等级之下的那些人的狭隘品味区分开来的一种新方式。