rates

英 [reɪts]

美 [reɪts]

n.  速度; 进度; 比率; 率; 价格; 费用
v.  评估; 评价; 估价; 认为…是好的; 看好; 划分等级; 分等
rate的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 速度；速率
  Therateat which something happens is the speed with which it happens.
  1. The rate at which hair grows can be agonisingly slow...
     头发生长的速度可能极其缓慢。
  2. 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。
• N-COUNT 比率;频率
  Therateat which something happens is the number of times it happens over a period of time.
  1. 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。
  2. His heart rate was 30 beats per minute slower...
     他的心率每分钟慢了30次。
  3. Britain held the unenviable record of having the highest divorce rate in Europe.
     英国在欧洲各国中保持着不光彩的最高离婚率纪录。
• See also:Calls cost 36p per minute cheap rate and 48p at all other times....specially reduced rates for travellers using Gatwick Airport...East German wages were converted at the rate of one old East mark for one Deutschmark.exchange rate
• N-COUNT 税率；利率
  Therateof 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.
  1. 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。
• N-PLURAL （英国）地方税，不动产税，房地产税
  In Britain,the rateswere a local tax which you paid if you owned property or if you rented property without furniture.
  1. Soldiers were exempt from paying rates...
     士兵免缴地方税。
  2. 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。
• V-ERG 评价;评级;评定
  If youratesomeone or something as good or bad, you consider them to be good or bad. You can also say that someone or somethingratesas good or bad.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
  3. Most rated it a hit...
     大多数人认为它很受欢迎。
  4. We rate him as one of the best...
     我们认为他是其中佼佼者之一。
  5. She rated the course highly...
     她对这门课的评价很高。
  6. Reading books does not rate highly among Britons as a leisure activity.
     读书并非英国人很喜欢的休闲活动。
  7. ...the most highly rated player in English football.
     英格兰足球界最受好评的球员
• VERB 看好；瞧得上
  If youratesomeone or something, you think that they are good.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• V-PASSIVE 把…评为;把…认定为;把…列为
  If someone or somethingis ratedat a particular position or rank, they are calculated or considered to be in that position on a list.
  1. He is generally rated Italy's No. 3 industrialist...
     他被公认为意大利第三大实业家。
  2. 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。
• VERB 值得;应该得到
  If you say that someone or somethingratesa particular reaction, you mean that this is the reaction you consider to be appropriate.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• See also:rating
• PHRASE 至少
  You useat any rateto indicate that what you have just said might be incorrect or unclear in some way, and that you are now being more precise.
  1. 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”。
  2. 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。
• 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 useat any rateto indicate that the important thing is what you are saying now, and not what was said before.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• PHRASE 这样下去；长此以往；如此一来
  If you say thatat this ratesomething bad or extreme will happen, you mean that it will happen if things continue to develop as they have been doing.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

英英释义

noun

• a local tax on property (usually used in the plural)

双语例句

• The government is in a corner on interest rates
  政府在利率问题上陷入了困境。
• There have been grouses about the economy, interest rates and house prices.
  人们对经济、利率和房价啧有烦言。
• The economy is expanding, notching up high growth rates.
  经济在发展，实现了高增长率。
• We think lower German interest rates in due course will allow European currencies to depreciate against the dollar bloc.
  我们认为较低的德国利率到时候将容许欧洲货币相对于美元集团货币发生贬值。
• Maternity services were to be reduced in consequence of falling birth rates.
  由于出生率下降，产科服务会随之削减。
• Interest rates could fall soon and be a stimulus to the US economy
  利率可能很快就会下调，从而刺激美国经济。
• Interest rates came down today
  今天利率下调了。
• The prices in brackets are special rates for the under 18s
  括号中的价格是年龄在18岁以下的消费者可以享受的特别优惠价。
• Most Middle Eastern countries have extremely high rates of population growth
  大多数中东国家的人口增长率都极高。
• Europe's economies have converged in several areas. More interestingly, there has been convergence in economic growth rates
  欧洲的经济已在多个领域互相趋同；更有意思的是，各国经济增长率也渐趋一致。