| 单词 | hierarchical |
| 释义 | hierarchical (once / 15573 pages) adj If something is hierarchical it has clear levels of power and importance, such as a hierarchical corporation that has the boss at the top, or the hierarchical social order of junior high school popularity. It's lonely at the top. That pretty much sums up hierarchical, pronounced "high-eh-RAR-ki-cal." In a hierarchical structure, people or groups are arranged according to ability or status. It helps to think of a triangle, with the leader at the highest point, layers of managers under him or her, and at the base, or widest part, the masses of workers who make up the largest part of the organization. WORD FAMILYhierarchical: hierarchically, nonhierarchical+/hierarchy: hierarchical, hierarchies USAGE EXAMPLESYears of violence, civil war and assassinations ensued before the country stabilized under an “institutional” revolutionary party, which grew progressively more hierarchical and autocratic. Washington Post(Dec 26, 2016) “Stanford was such a hierarchical place. He was really high up, and I was untenured.” The Guardian(Dec 19, 2016) These advances were largely powered by deep learning, which harnesses huge data sets and a hierarchical, brain-like method of computing. Nature(Dec 15, 2016) adj classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers it has been said that only a hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can produce works of art in her hierarchical set of values honesty comes first Syn|Ant hierarchal, hierarchic class-conscious, stratified (used of society) socially hierarchical gradablecapable of being graded (for quality or rank or size etc.) graded, ranked, stratifiedarranged in a sequence of grades or ranks verticalof or relating to different levels in a hierarchy (as levels of social class or income group) nonhierarchic, nonhierarchical not classified hierarchically ungraded, unordered, unrankednot arranged in order hierarchically |
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