hierarchies
A hierarchy is a system of organizing people into different ranks or levels of importance, for example in society or in a company.
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,这里工人和管理人员都有严格界定的职责。
She rose up the Tory hierarchy by the local government route.
她通过地方政府路线在保守党的等级体系内步步高升。
Even in the desert there was a kind of social hierarchy.
即便在沙漠里,也存在某种社会等级。
The hierarchy of an organization is the group of people who manage and control it.
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。