rank-and-file

基本解释

Unless some gargantuan scandal suddenly engulfs Mr Obama, which seems improbable, they cannot do this without enraging most rank-and-file Democrats and nearly all blacks.
除非一大丑闻吞没了奥巴马--看起来不可能--这么做肯定会让普通民主党和几乎全体黑人选民大怒。
It got me thinking about what a CEO, or even a rank-and-file employee for that matter, really gains by admitting a mistake and taking the blame.
这让我思考，对于那样一个事件，一个首席执行官，或者一个普通雇员，认识到所犯的错误，可以得到怎样的教训？

The rank-and-file members of the Green Movement, they have reached the unfortunate conclusion that now that the regime cannot be reformed in a peaceful way, we have to pursue other means.
And response back is "Well, yes, we had people at the table, but they were Oxford educated and they didn't represent the rank-and-file people in my culture."
而他们得到的回应是,“是的，的确如此，可是那些人读的可是牛津大学,他们并不能代表,我们的普通民众“
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But the biggest difference between the rank-and-file and the leadership involves diplomacy, and psychology.
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The rank and file are the ordinary members of an organization or the ordinary workers in a company, as opposed to its leaders or managers.