classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers;
"it has been said that only a hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can produce works of art"
"in her hierarchical set of values honesty comes first"
hierarchical的用法和样例:
例句
用作形容词 (adj.)
The federal judiciary is hierarchical. 联邦司法体系是分等级的。
All state judiciaries are hierarchical, like the federal system. 各州的司法机构都象联邦体系一样分等级的。
Congress is a collegial and not a hierarchical body. 国会是一个学院式的机构,而不是一个等级制度的机构。