We weren't really in the first rank in Cincinnati, still less when we moved to New York.

我们在辛辛那提时地位本就不怎么高，搬去纽约后更不行了。

The year is 1878. A 22-year-old Nikola Tesla drops out of Imperial-Royal Technical College in Graz despite being described as a star of the first rank.

1878 年，22 岁的尼古拉·特斯拉 (Nikola Tesla) 尽管被誉为一流明星，但还是从格拉茨帝国皇家技术学院退学。

This lord Munodi was a person of the first rank, and had been some years governor of Lagado; but, by a cabal of ministers, was discharged for insufficiency.

这位诺迪勋爵是一位上流人物，曾担任拉加多省长数年。但是，在一群部长的阴谋下，因能力不足而被免职。

Did he at any rate feel that straining of the whole being, that longing to be among the first ranks, which is always inspired by the first approach of the battle?

无，他有没有感到整个人的紧张， 那种渴望成为第一名的渴望， 这种渴望总是受到第一次战斗的鼓舞？

To these distinguished foreigners, who freely threw in their lot with American revolutionary fortunes, was due much of that spirit and discipline which fitted raw recruits and temperamental militiamen to cope with a military power of the first rank.

这些杰出的外国人， 他们自由地将自己的命运投入到美国革命的命运中，他们应具有许多适合新兵和脾气暴躁的民兵应对一流军事力量的精神和纪律。