break the ranks

基本解释

The fierce onset of the enemy broke the ranks of the army.
敌人的猛烈攻击致使全军大乱。
At the end of the 1956 Summer Games in Melbourne, Australia, however, the athletes broke ranks and mingled together to celebrate the occasion.
然而，1956年在澳大利亚墨尔本举行的夏季奥运会上，运动员打乱队形，互相握手、拥抱，共同庆祝这一时刻。
Ursula Burns, an African-American engineer who now runs Xerox's largest division, recalls "a special spotlight put on me" when she broke into the management ranks.
阿修拉·伯恩斯——一名目前管理施乐最大部门的美国黑人工程师，回忆起当她跻身于管理层之时“备受瞩目”。

On October 6, 1981, Gamal, then seventeen, was sitting in the grandstand, eight seats away from President Anwar Sadat, at a military procession commemorating the 1973 Yom Kippur war with Israel. (His father was then the Vice-President.) Four soldiers—assassins from the radical group Egyptian Islamic Jihad—broke from the ranks and turned toward the stand, firing automatic rifles and hurling grenades.
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Over 40 of them broke ranks in the House over the climate-change bill.
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