Even though the Department of Energy was no longer first in the pecking-order of creditors, it still authorised the disbursement of a $67m portion of the loan it was backing.
虽然能源部不再是债权人首选人，但它仍然可以在偿还的贷款中授权支出6700万美元。
Motorists would rather pay more tax than lose the place in the corporate pecking order conferred on them by their company cars.
驾车者宁愿交更多的税，也不愿失去公司汽车赋予他们的公司地位。
God designed chickens to make nests, lay eggs, raise their chicks and establish communities (the "pecking order").
上帝设计鸡筑巢，产卵，养育小鸡，建立社区(“啄食顺序”)。
How galling then, for those down the pecking order, that the Numbers of people at the top are rising so fast.
于是，对那些位于长幼序列下方者而言，身处顶端之人数的快速增加将多么令人烦恼啊。
Did that feel a lot different given where you guys have been in terms of the top of the pecking order?
考虑到你们通常的排名都非常靠前，这次的排名，同以往相比是不是让你们感到有很大不同？
The lender needs to top up its capital levels, but with larger Chinese banks in the same situation, it could find itself well down the pecking order if left to raise funds on the stock market.
投资者需要提高它的资本，但是，同样的情况，和国内大银行一样，如果把资金交给证券市场去集资，它可以按照支配顺序很好地走下去。
Firms can, of course, recognise their own data and judge where they stand in the pecking order.
当然，公司可以辨认自己的资料并判断出自己在排名顺序中的位置。
But the dramatic changes in the pecking order mask a lack of more profound change in the system of finance itself.
然而金融界等级中出现的重大变化却恰好说明，整个世界金融体系需要更深层次的改变。
Even existing funds will find it hard to raise fresh capital unless they are at the very top of the industry's pecking order.
即使现存的基金也会发现募集新鲜的资金也会越来越难除非他们处在这个行业的前几名。
If they want to replace coal plants in the pecking order, though, they'll have to work all the time.
但如果风电厂想取代燃煤发电厂的主导地位，就必须全天候持续工作。
Are we looking here at one of the oldest of all status symbols; the expression of a social pecking order?
我们是否正面对着人类最古老的地位象征物品之一？代表着一个社会的尊卑秩序？
The Moroccan international has found himself behind the prolific Robin van Persie in the pecking order for the majority of this season, starting in just one Premier League match against Stoke.
这位摩洛哥锋霸本赛季大多数时间都只能做现在有如神助的范大将军的替补。 直至今日只有在对阵斯托克城的比赛中进入了首发名单。
It's very tight at the very top so a relatively small change can move the pecking order.
顶级学府的排名竞争相当激烈，因此即便相对较小的变化都会使名次产生变动。
American competitive instincts notwithstanding, there is no reason for the United States to judge itself so harshly based purely on its position in the global pecking order.
尽管美国有竞争本能，但也没有理由仅因为我们在全球优势顺序中的排名就猛烈抨击自己。
OVER the past decade the world's corporate pecking order has been disturbed by the arrival of a new breed of plucky multinationals from the emerging world.
在过去的十年间，全球企业界的食物链次序已经被新兴世界那些来势汹汹的跨国公司搅得天翻地覆。
Two studies by management consultants show that they dramatically rearranged the pecking order of companies in many fields.
根据管理顾问的两项研究调查显示，很多行业都得以戏剧性地重新洗牌。
It seems envy at being lower in the social pecking order tarnishes the satisfaction of being well off.
你会嫉妒身处社会等级低下而使对自身富裕的满意度不屑一顾。
And, sadly, the ability to exert force still determines the international pecking order.
可悲的是，实施能力仍然决定了国际权势等级。
You might think chickens are way down the pecking order in the animal kingdom when it comes to emotional intelligence.
也许在你看来，动物世界里按“情商”论资排辈的话，鸡类可能将名落孙山。
Despite this, other names are often touted ahead of Friedrich in the defensive pecking order, though it is not something that appears to unduly bother the player.
尽管如此，后防最佳人选常常出现其他人的名字——虽然这一点似乎并没有对他造成太大困扰。
Still, LeBron is the superior player and the redundancy of their skill sets complicates the traditional 1-2 "pecking order.
当然了，在个人实力和能力上，勒布朗绝对是一个怪兽，从传统意义上来说的1、2名话，他依旧领先。
In Japanese companies which adopt a traditional pecking order based upon seniority, the older the age of an employee, the more he is paid.
日本企业采用在资历基础上的传统权势等级制度，职员年岁越长，薪水越高。
This is because the office is organized by pecking order. People with more years and experience are given more responsibility.
这是因为办公室的管理规则是以小鸡啄食的规则组织的，就是说年纪大的，经验多的人往往有优先权，被给予了更多的责任。
Professor John Brookfield, a specialist in evolutionary genetics at the University of Nottingham, told the UK Press Association the pecking order was clear.
诺丁汉大学的基因专家JohnBrookfield教授对英国出版协会如此说：这个逐渐演化的过程很清晰。
So, it may not be necessary to look any further than their place in the pecking order to explain what Dr Evans and Dr Schamberg have discovered in their research into the children of the poor.
所以，也许我们没有必要从社会等级之外去寻找对Evans和Schamberg博士在他们的研究中的发现的解释。
Still, LeBron is the superior player and the redundancy of their skill sets complicates the traditional 1-2 "pecking order."
当然了，在个人实力和能力上，勒布朗绝对是一个怪兽，从传统意义上来说的1、2名话，他依旧领先。
Still, LeBron is the superior player and the redundancy of their skill sets complicates the traditional 1-2 "pecking order."
当然了，在个人实力和能力上，勒布朗绝对是一个怪兽，从传统意义上来说的1、2名话，他依旧领先。
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