按部就班
- na.follow the prescribed order
- 网络Learn to say before you sing.; Step by step; ABJB

按部就班
1.follow the prescribed order; conform to ancient customs [style]; Creep before you walk.; do sth. according to routine; first things first; follow strictly prescribed routine; go [act] each according to his duties; in accordance with the prescribed; in a proper order; keep to conventional [fixed] ways of doing things; Learn to say before you sing.; observe office routine; perform routine duties; proceed in order; Run before you leap.; step by step; work strictly by [according to] protocol
2.The officials complied according to ranks, with the titled, cabinet ministers and heads of the ministries in front.; The officials of the six bureaus of the palace lined the steps according to rank, the military ones at the west and the civil at the east.