echelons

英 [ˈɛʃəlɒnz]

美 [ˈɛʃəˌlɑnz]

n.  职权的等级; 阶层; (士兵、飞机等的)梯形编队，梯队
echelon的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 等级;阶层
  Anechelonin an organization or society is a level or rank in it.
  1. ...the lower echelons of society.
     社会等级较低的阶层
• （士兵、车辆、军舰、飞机等的）梯形编队,梯队
  Anechelonis a military formation in which soldiers, vehicles, ships, or aircraft follow each other but are spaced out sideways so that they can see ahead.

双语例句

• At Sarasin, for example, many in the higher echelons of the bank, in both Europe and Asia are refugees from larger organisations such as Credit Suisse.
  以嘉盛莱宝为例，该行在亚洲和欧洲的大量职位更高的管理人员都是从瑞信等规模更大的投资机构“逃”出来的。
• Beyond the tribulations of marrying Chinese and South African corporate cultures, negotiating the upper echelons of ICBC including establishing links with their counterparts is taking time, standard executives said.
  标准银行高管称，除了两国企业文化融合带来的考验外，同工行各级高层领导人进行磋商，包括与对手建立关系，也需要时间。
• Within the upper echelons, the top 1% have reaped the greatest gains.
  在上层社会，金字塔尖1%的人攫取了最多的财富。
• Some observers have blamed the volte-face on lobbying inside the senior echelons of the European Central Bank.
  一些观察员认为，欧洲央行（ecb）高层内部的游说，是这种态度转变的原因。
• He distinguished himself at Austerlitz in that admirable march in echelons effected under the enemy's fire.
  他曾在奥斯特里茨参加了那次英勇的冒着敌人炮火前进的梯形队伍。
• The Armed Police Force has three echelons of leadership, namely, general headquarters, contingent ( division) and detachment ( regiment).
  武警部队设总部、总队（师）、支队（团）三级领导机关。
• They are all northwest strikes, echelons and left-lateral strike-slips.
  它们走向北西，雁行斜列，左行走滑。
• It makes sense for the higher echelons of management to have someone act as a gatekeeper as well as to take care of complex but time-consuming tasks, freeing the boss up, she says.
  她表示：较高管理层会聘用某人担任‘看门人’，并处理复杂但耗时的任务，给老板们腾出时间，这是合理之举。
• But beneath the senior echelons of the banks are staffers who wish to expand their loan books and circumvent restrictions on loan growth.
  然而，在高级管理层之下，普通的银行职员则希望扩大放贷规模，绕开对贷款增长的限制。
• Thus, we see that the technological break between the producers of memory inthe first and second echelons increases with each month.
  因此，我们看到的技术突破之间的生产者的记忆体在第一和第二梯队的增加而每个月。