Rate

(noun.) amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis; 'a 10-minute phone call at that rate would cost $5'.

(noun.) a quantity or amount or measure considered as a proportion of another quantity or amount or measure; 'the literacy rate'; 'the retention rate'; 'the dropout rate'.

(noun.) a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit; 'they traveled at a rate of 55 miles per hour'; 'the rate of change was faster than expected'.

(verb.) assign a rank or rating to; 'how would you rank these students?'; 'The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide'.

(verb.) estimate the value of; 'How would you rate his chances to become President?'; 'Gold was rated highly among the Romans'.

(verb.) be worthy of or have a certain rating; 'This bond rates highly'.

埃菲编辑

• A struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organic beings tend to increase. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Upon the main caravan routes the chief towns rose to a certain second-rate prosperity, and foremost among them were Medina and Mecca. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They would say that, at any rate, if they did not perceive the drift of the question. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Where the market rate of interest is five per cent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In a country where the ordinary rate of clear profit is eight or ten per cent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Our rate at present is fifty-three and a half miles an hour. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• At any rate, it was more like a hearse than any thing else, though to speak by the card, it was a gondola. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The next matter was the financing of the trip, about which Mr. Edison asked in a tentative way about the rates to the East. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• What we pay rates and taxes for I don't know, when any ruffian can come in and break one's goods. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• It should cut down the rates for using wire and cable systems, and ultimately place the means of communicating directly with any one on land or sea within the reach of every man. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• These ordinary or average rates may be called the natural rates of wages, profit and rent, at the time and place in which they commonly prevail. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• That rates of toll have been imposed on steam carriages which would prohibit them being used on several lines of roads, were such charges permitted to remain unaltered. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The book of rates is extremely comprehensive, and enumerates a great variety of articles, many of them little used, and, therefore, not well known. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I think the Church-rates guesses who I am, and I know the Water-works does, because I drew a tooth of his when I first came down here. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• He rated him as a first-class hand; and yet he felt a secret dislike to him,--the native antipathy of bad to good. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Lord Molyneux shortly took his seat by my side, and I rated him about Mrs. Fitzroy. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• There are four motors, two to each truck, each rated at 360 horse power. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• But an inner strenuousness was preying upon an outer symmetry, and they rated his look as singular. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The early arc lamps were rated to require 9 to 10 amperes of current, at 45 volts pressure each, receiving which they were estimated to give 2000 c. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• There was a smart young Frenchwoman waiting in Nugent's ante-room, and we rated him most unmercifully about her. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• But constancy, chastity, good sense, and good nature, were not rated, because they would not bear the charge of collecting. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• There is nothing the lower orders like better than a little downright good-humoured rating. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I have not means to secure the good-will of a Christian beggar, were he rating it at a single penny. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• I am sure his sisters, rating him as they do, must have thought it so, supposing he had meant nothing. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.

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