Those flags identified a knight's rank, social class, land, or noble titles.

这些旗帜表明一个骑士的等级、阶层、土地或贵族头衔。

And music's function now also changes with the growth of social hierarchy.

随着等级制度的发展，音乐的功能也发化。

The lyric " I just want to be your sigma" refers to the concept of a sigma male, which incels use to describe their desired position outside of the social hierarchy.

歌词“我只想成为你的西格玛”指的就是“西格玛男性”这个概念。incel 用这个词来形容自己，意指游离于等级之外，独来独往。

An expression with a similar meaning is 'pecking order', which relates to how important someone, or a chicken, is, within a hierarchy.

一个有相似意思的表达是" 等级" ，指的是某人或者一只鸡在等级制度中有多重要。

Today, modern English speakers - regardless of social class - have come to use both.

而现如今说英语的人，不论等级，这两种名称都使用。

Class has declined as the central divide in British politics.

英国政局的重要分化使得等级得越来越不重要。

There are social hierarchies all around you.

日常活中有各种形式的等级制度。

Spare me the lecture. I don't need to break down on the social hierarchy here.

别教育我。我没想打破这里的等级制度。

Social hierarchy gets re-introduced in a much more subtle way, where the way social status is expressed is through savoir-faire, through knowing the right cut, the right fabric.

等级制度以一种更微妙的方式被重新引入，地位的表达方式是采用得体的设计、恰到好处的剪裁和优质的布料。

We can only speculate how the hierarchies of prehistoric British society might have regarded this rare and beautiful thing, or what they might have done with it.

我们只能推测史前英国的等级制度如何评价这件罕见的稀世珍宝, 或者他们可能对它做过些什么。

Biologists already knew that lemurs have scent glands and that they use them to communicate their social rank or to identify their territories.

物学家已经知道环尾狐猴有气味腺体，也知道它们利用腺体来显示等级或确认领地。

Such results have since been confirmed many times, both in human societies and in other primate species with strong social hierarchies.

在人类，还有等级严格的其他的灵长类物种中，都已多次验证这种结果的正确性。

As society became hierarchical, there was no greater token of status than the ability to eat meat on a whim.

随着得等级森严，没有什么比想吃肉就吃肉更能体现地位。

We place growth above equality and pay a price in what's called " the hidden injuries of class."

我们将经济增长凌驾于平等之上，结果造成所谓的“等级的隐性伤害" 。

Spotted hyenas could only climb the social ladder if they were able to maintain a strong alliance.

斑点鬣狗只有维持强大的联盟才能登上更高的等级。

Pecking order' is a great phrase. We use it to describe levels of importance in an organisation. The more important you are, the higher in the pecking order you are. Where does this phrase originate?

" 等级" 是一个很棒的短语。我们用它来形容一个组织里的等级重要程度。你越重要，你所处的等级越高。这个短语是从哪里来的？

But in other animals, dominance rank can be acquired through things like age or nepotism.

但在其他动物中，等级通过年龄或裙带关系来获得。

The people of this era utilized jade to delineate social hierarchies, distinguish status and symbolize power.

这个时代的人们利用玉来划定等级，区分地位和象征权力。

Milgram believed that humans evolved the capacity to organize into social hierarchies because it was a huge survival advantage.

米尔格伦相信人之所以进化出有组织等级的能力，是因为阶级对存有利。

They were searching for correlations between social rank and gene activity, and in 987 genes they found one.

寻找等级与基因活动之间的相互关系，在987个基因中，他们找到一个。