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速度；速率
The rate at which something happens is the speed with which it happens.
例句
The rate at which hair grows can be agonisingly slow...
头发生长的速度可能极其缓慢。
The world's tropical forests are disappearing at an even faster rate than experts had thought.
世界上热带森林消失的速度比专家们预想的还要快。
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比率;频率
The rate at which something happens is the number of times it happens over a period of time.
例句
New diet books appear at a rate of nearly one a week...
新的饮食类书籍差不多一周出一本。
His heart rate was 30 beats per minute slower...
他的心率每分钟慢了30次。
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价格;费用
A rate is the amount of money that is charged for goods or services.
例句
Calls cost 36p per minute cheap rate and 48p at all other times.
优惠时段的话费是每分钟36便士，其他时段是48便士。
...specially reduced rates for travellers using Gatwick Airport...
为在盖特威克机场进出港的乘客提供的优惠价格
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税率；利率
The rate of taxation or interest is the amount of tax or interest that needs to be paid. It is expressed as a percentage of the amount that is earned, gained as profit, or borrowed.
例句
The government insisted that it would not be panicked into interest rate cuts.
政府坚称不会陷入恐慌而匆忙降息。
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N-PLURAL
（英国）地方税，不动产税，房地产税
In Britain, the rates were a local tax which you paid if you owned property or if you rented property without furniture.
例句
Soldiers were exempt from paying rates...
士兵免缴地方税。
The new council tax combines elements of both the community charge and the rates.
新的家庭税合并了人头税和地方税两个税种。
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V-ERG
评价;评级;评定
If you rate someone or something as good or bad, you consider them to be good or bad. You can also say that someone or something rates as good or bad.
例句
Of all the men in the survey, they rate themselves the least fun-loving and the most responsible...
在所有参加调查的人中，他们认为自己最不贪玩、最负责任。
The film was rated excellent by 90 per cent of children...
90%的孩子都表示这部电影很精彩。
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VERB
看好；瞧得上
If you rate someone or something, you think that they are good.
例句
It's flattering to know that other clubs have shown interest and seem to rate me...
得知其他俱乐部对我感兴趣并看好我令我受宠若惊。
Its artistic value failed to move Paddy Clegg. 'I don't know what all the fuss is about. I didn't rate it at all,' he said.
它的艺术价值没能打动帕迪·克莱格。“我不知道这样大惊小怪是为什么。我一点儿也不看好它，”他说道。
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V-PASSIVE
把…评为;把…认定为;把…列为
If someone or something is rated at a particular position or rank, they are calculated or considered to be in that position on a list.
例句
He is generally rated Italy's No. 3 industrialist...
他被公认为意大利第三大实业家。
He came here rated 100th on the tennis computer.
他以网坛排名第100名的身份来到这里。
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VERB
值得;应该得到
If you say that someone or something rates a particular reaction, you mean that this is the reaction you consider to be appropriate.
例句
This is so extraordinary, it rates a medal and a phone call from the President...
这简直不可思议，应该得到一枚奖章以及总统的电话祝贺。
In those crowded streets her attire did not rate a second glance.
在那些拥挤的街道她的穿着并未引起注意。
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PHRASE
至少
You use at any rate to indicate that what you have just said might be incorrect or unclear in some way, and that you are now being more precise.
例句
She modestly suggests that 'sex, or at any rate gender, may account for the difference'...
她谨慎地提出“性别，至少是男女的性征，也许能解释这个差异”。
He is the least appealing character, to me at any rate.
他是其中最没有吸引力的角色，至少对我来说是这样。
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PHRASE
不管怎样，无论如何（表示现在所说的话更为重要、而非之前所言）
You use at any rate to indicate that the important thing is what you are saying now, and not what was said before.
例句
At any rate, Pankin said that relations between the two nations will be restored before the conference...
不管怎样，潘金说两国之间的关系将在会谈之前恢复。
Well, at any rate, let me thank you for all you did.
好吧，不管怎样，还是要感谢你所做的一切。
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PHRASE
这样下去；长此以往；如此一来
If you say that at this rate something bad or extreme will happen, you mean that it will happen if things continue to develop as they have been doing.
例句
At this rate, she would be almost seven feet tall by then...
这样下去，她到时将有7英尺高了。
At this rate they'd be lucky to get home before eight-thirty or nine.
这样看来他们能在8点半或是9点以前到家就算幸运了。