http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GiUEqI671g 5:00 Sullivan is super intelligent and uses his smarts to rise through the ranks and infiltrate the Special Investigations Unit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1suPxXTrpmw&feature=g-all-u 0:31 in just two years, he has worked his way up from an assistant to a stylist in a trendy hair salon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQvGAAIFNsg 0:35 rising through the ranks of the Air Force. 空軍の出世階段を駆け上がった
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYxQMdndsUA 1:16 he came up through the ranks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXX4LIzIa7c 1:30 they can't get everything on a plate right away. they have to start by working their way up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4_TeykrE60 0:38 he was ordained in 1951 and taught theology before working his way up the church hierarchy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSPFh2g_1mE 0:33 Bulger rose through the ranks from a petty criminal to the head of the Irish underworld.
参考リンク
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxqlXumJL18 0:38 a guy that's only got to where he is by sucking his way up. おべっかを使って今の地位を手に入れただけの男 注;sucking your way up the ladder ゴマすりによる出世方法
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbpSpoiOFxk 0:31 her rise to the top wasn't easy. 社長への道のりは平坦ではなかった。
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50139841n 18:20 cheat your way to the top. チャンピオンになるまでズルをしろ。
http://bridge-english.blogspot.jp/2010/11/sleep-ones-way-to-top.html sleep one's way to the top
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYhn80LsS_4 10:43 all I would so is watch grown men grovel to suck their way up to the top. 当時の私の仕事といえばいい年をこいた大の大人が昇進のためにヘラヘラとへつらい平身低頭する姿を見学することだった。
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiwTRLwmm4w 1:07 I am trying to sleep my way to the top.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJKY9uCUtCo 1:21 you, Jordan, got this way, all on your own. あんたは、一代でここまで築き上げたんだ。
練習問題解答
a-9129 rose through the political ranks
b-0180 working her way up the ranks
b-0280 sleeping her way to the top
b-3972 rose through the ranks