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If a statement says "India is ranked two places below China" What place does India hold if China is ranked 1? Is it rank 3 or 4?
Also, is there any difference between the following two sentences?
India is ranked below China.
India is ranked behind China.
To stand on something means to insist on something, to be particular about something in this sentence.
Trifles are trivial things, things that are of little importance.
Hence your sentence means after that, it is unnecessary to be particular about trivial things. I don't know the story, which is why I don't know exactly why her aunt says this. Perhaps she means that refusing a lord increases a woman's status so much that, afterwards, one may safely risk some loss of status due to less reputable behaviour. Or perhaps it is just that, after this important event, anything else probably fades in comparison.
It means grassland that covers undulating foothills or bluffs, such as may be seen in Nebraska and South Dakota, and in Colorado and Wyoming on the plains side of the Rockies.
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Best Answer
The best way to decode such statements is to play with the numbers. What could it mean if India was ranked one place below China?
China is ranked "1".
0 places below (equal ranking) is "1"
1 place below is therefore "2"
2 places below is therefore "3"
Phrases like "n places below" are mostly interpreted as a distance rather than as a count of intervening positions.