pecking order

英 [ˈpekɪŋ ˈɔːdə(r)]

美 [ˈpekɪŋ ˈɔːrdər]

n.  啄序; (群体中的)尊卑秩序，权势等级

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT （群体中的）尊卑秩序，权势等级
  The pecking orderof a group is the way that the positions people have are arranged according to their status or power within the group.
  1. He knew his place in the pecking order...
     他知道自己排老几。
  2. They both came from families fairly far down the social pecking order.
     他们两个都来自社会最底层的家庭。

英英释义

noun

• the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body
  Synonym:hierarchypower structure

双语例句

• This is much more of a problem for you than it is for him, as he is above you in the pecking order.
  这给你造成的问题比他大，因为他在公司的地位比你高。
• Evra's arrival also means John O'Shea and Kieran Richardson will be shunted down the pecking order.
  埃弗拉的到来还意味着奥谢以及理查德森将坐稳“冷板凳”。
• This year, however, the pecking order has been reversed.
  然而，今年的权力等级发生了转变。
• Parental authority still has some meaning. But, unlike conventional family holidays, I am at the bottom of the pecking order.
  父母的权威还是管点用的。但是，与传统的家庭假日不同，我排在权力等级的最低部。
• Japan, in other words, is not conceding its place in the global pecking order relative to China.
  换句话说，和中国比起来，日本没有让出它在国际秩序中的地位。
• The pecking order continues to change.
  尊卑次序继续发生改变。
• Taking an important place in new capital structure theory centered with asymmetry of information, pecking order theory gains support from relative foreign empirical researches.
  优序融资理论在以信息不对称理论为中心的新资本结构理论中占有重要地位，并得到国外相关实证研究一定程度上的支持。
• At the very least a new pecking order appears to be forming.
  最起码，新的等级排序似乎正在逐渐成型。
• And even a well-meaning Google can have devastating effects on companies that fall foul of its secret judgments on where they should rank in the decisive pecking order of the search world.
  而且，即使谷歌的本意是好的，也可能对那些冒犯其神秘排序算法的公司造成毁灭性影响因为这些公司在搜索世界中决定性的排名如何，要由那些算法决定。
• A new employee must always obey the pecking order, or he will get his superiors upset.
  新进员工必须遵守阶级顺序，否则会令上级不高兴。