hierarchy

名词 hierarchy:

1. a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system
2. the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body
   同义词：power structure, pecking order

1. One who occupies a position of authority in a religious hierarchy.
   祭祀长，高僧，大主教掌握高级职位或有权威的宗教领袖
2. It's not as if he was very important in the company hierarchy.
   他在公司的领导层中似乎无多大权力。

hi.er.ar.chy

n.（名词）
【复数】 hi.er.ar.chies
A body of persons having authority.
统治集团：掌握权威的一群人

Categorization of a group of people according to ability or status.
划分，区分，分等级：根据能力或地位对人进行分类
The group so categorized.
等级森严的组织：按上述办法划分的集团
A series in which each element is graded or ranked:
等次：分等级或次序的一系列事物：
例句：
put honesty first in her hierarchy of values.
把诚实放在她自己的价值等次的首要地位

A body of clergy organized into successive ranks or grades with each level subordinate to the one above.
教士团：分等级的教士集团，每一级以属于上一级的组织
Religious rule by a group of ranked clergy.
按教士等级实行的宗教统治
One of the divisions of angels.
天使的级别或等级

来源：
Middle English ierarchie
中古英语 ierarchie
from Old French
源自 古法语
from Medieval Latin hierarchia
源自 中世纪拉丁语 hierarchia
from Greek hierarkhia [rule of a high priest]
源自 希腊语 hierarkhia [大主教的统治]
from hierarkhôs [high priest] * see hierarch
源自 hierarkhôs [大主教] *参见 hierarch