rate是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 the speed at which something happens or changes, or the amount or number of times it happens or changes in a particular period -- 率，比率；速率；速度；進度

  • Although she's recovering from her illness, her rate of progress is quite slow. 儘管病情正在好轉，但她康復的速度仍很慢。

  • I told my assistants to work at their own rate. 我告訴我的助手們按照他們自己的進度工作。

  • The taxi was going at a tremendous rate. 計程車飛速奔馳。

  • the growth/inflation/mortality/unemployment, etc. rate 增長率／通貨膨脹率／死亡率／失業率等

  • The drug has a high success/failure rate. 這種藥物治療疾病的成功率／失敗率很高。

• 1 an amount or level of payment -- 價格；費用

  • We agreed a rate with the painter before he started work. 開工前，我們和油漆工談好了薪酬。

  • What's the going (= standard) rate for this type of work? 這種工作一般酬金是多少？

  • Do you pay your mortgage on a fixed or variable rate (= of interest)? 你怎樣還抵押貸款，是定額償付還是不定額償付？

• 2 a local tax paid in Australia, and in Britain in the past, by the owners of houses and other buildings -- （澳大利亞以及舊時英國的）房産稅，房地産稅

• 3 to judge the value or character of someone or something -- 評估；評價；估價

  • How do you rate him as a football player? 你怎麽評價他作為一個足球運動員的表現？

  • She is rated very highly by the people she works for. 僱主對她的評價都很高。

  • informal "What do you think of her as a singer?" "I don't really rate her (= I do not think that she is very good)." 「你認爲她作為一個歌手錶現如何？」「我認為她不怎麽樣。」

  • I rate cars as one of the worst polluters of the environment. 我認為汽車是污染環境的罪魁禍首之一。

  • [ + obj + noun ] On a scale of one to ten, I'd rate his book a five. 滿分是十分的話，我給他這本書給五分。

  • Traffic accidents are so frequent that they don't rate a mention (= are not considered to be worth reporting) in the newspaper unless a lot of people are killed. 撞車事故太頻繁了，所以除非造成多人死亡，否則報紙對這樣的事都不屑一提。

  • That rates as the worst film I've ever seen. 那是我看過的最蹩腳的電影。

• 4 In Britain in the past, a building was rated to decide how much local tax the owner should pay. -- （舊時英國為收房產稅而）給（房屋）核定應繳稅款

• 5 used with words such as first, second, etc. to show how good you think something is -- 級別；水準；質量（與 first、second 等詞連用，表明你認為某物的優劣如何）

  • His suggestions are always first-rate (= very good). 他總是能提出很好的建議。

  • This company produces second/third-rate (= not very good) goods. 這間公司生産的都是些二／三流的産品。