adj．高级的，高层次的：在等级、地位或权力上较高的。
... master 主人 higher-ranking 级别高的 higher-up 上级 ...
These low-ranking wives have relatively more daughters than higher-ranking and monogamously married wives.
这些等级较低的妻子与地位较高的妻子或一夫一妻制家庭的妻子相比，生的女孩更多。
Frustrated at not seeing higher-ranking bank bosses clapped in irons, the public and the us media are watching keenly.
由于一直没有银行界的高层被逮捕，失望的公众和媒体一直都密切关注着事态的变化。
And as expected these women produced more daughters than higher-ranking and monogamous wives, according to the findings published in Biology Letters.
发表在《生物书简》的研究结果显示：正如预料的那样，与地位更高的妻子和一夫一妻制家庭的妻子相比较，地位较低的妻子生的女孩更多。
One is that many of the higher-ranking defectors are staff officers and medical officers.
However, as he closed in on higher-ranking officials he was transferred to a remote rural district.
"They prefer to hit a structure, or a higher-ranking target like an ambassador, " Mr. Melman said.