in a 1984 essay he persuasively argued that ceo pay had rocketed out of control and implored boards to hold ceo compensation to no more than 20 times what the rank and file made.

年，他在一篇文章中有力地说明企业首席行政官的薪酬之高已近失控，并强烈建议各公司的董事会将其首席执行官的报酬控制在普通员工的二十倍以内。

the view into top management from the rank and file was just as obscure, benioff knew.

贝尼奥夫知道通过级别和文件进入高层管理的观点常是模糊的。

but, like each stop on a light-up subway map, they disappeared one by one, moving away from their ethnic enclaves to join the rank and file of people who had made it.

但是他们就像地铁上闪着小灯的路线图一样，一个一个的消失了，他们搬出了安乐窝，投入到茫茫人海中去。

even if mr mugabe’s senior security men wanted to launch a coup, it is uncertain that the rank and file would obey them.

即使穆加贝的高级军界人物想要来个军事行动，其他官兵也不一定就服从。

the rank and file members will follow the injunction of the party leadership.

普通成员将服从该党领导人下达的命令。

while the heads of the secret services have been changed and the services have been reorganized, much of the rank and file remains, now with ties to a powerful business elite.

虽然后来头头换了，机构也改组，很多组织级别和文件却保留下来，现在与势力庞大的商业精英们联系密切。

then the middle managers should be assigned the next most 「auspicious」 spots in the office. lastly, the rank and file take up the remaining floor space.

中层经理的位置应该被安排在老板的周围，最后才再把普通员工安排到其他剩余的地方。

given a 63% vote for mr ouattara among the rank and file in government barracks in november’s presidential election, the task may not prove as difficult as it might seem.

选举于十一月在政府营地举行，由于奥阿塔拉在排名中获得了63％的选票，任务似乎没有想象得那么困难。

the rank and file get perturbed, even frightened, if they think some new top-down management scheme is being forced upon them.

如果他们认为一些新的自上而下的管理模式被强制的推行到他们，一些人感到不安，甚至是惊讶。

so unreliable was the rank and file of the famed eighteenth century prussian army that military rules forbade camping near wooded areas: the troops would simply melt away into the trees.

18世纪的普鲁士军队就非常出名，其士兵是最靠不住的，以至于该国军事条例不得不禁止军队在树木繁茂地区附近宿营，因为在这些地方士兵很容易就能够逃进树木丛里面，然后部队就散伙了。

when access finally was granted to me, and others in the rank and file here, you could hear the gasps from cubicles when we all saw what we had been missing.

我和这里的其他普通员工最终得到了允许，当我们大家看到自己究竟错过些什么消息时，格子间里传出了阵阵惊讶的声音。

i have friends in the rank and file .

我有各种各样不同地位和行业的朋友。

example: the factory's new owner was popular with the rank and file because he walked around meeting them and asking about problems they experienced with their jobs.

工厂的新老板受到普通员工的喜爱，因为他走到各处会见他们，向他们询问工作中的问题。

all the rank and file and middle and senior management team are locals .

所有的头衔和文件以及中级和高级管理团队都是本地的。

i can see that you are happy with the plan but what will the rank and file think?

我能看出你很喜欢这个计划，可是队员们会怎么想呢?。