新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

rateIELTS重点词汇

英 [reɪt]

[NOUN, VERB]

词汇频率：

NOUN. 名词

rates
1. [C 可数名词] 速度
The rate at which something happens is the speed with which it happens.
近义词
speed , pace
双语例句
例：
The rate at which hair grows can be agonizingly slow.
头发生长的速度可以慢得恼人。
例：
The world's tropical forests are disappearing at an even faster rate than experts had thought.
消失的速度比专家们预想的还要快正在以超过专家们所预想的速度消失。
2. [C 可数名词] 频率
The rate at which something happens is the number of times it happens over a period of time.
双语例句
例：
New diet books appear at a rate of nearly one a week.
饮食方面的新书以几乎每周一本的频率出版。
例：
His heart rate was 30 beats per minute slower.
他的心率每分钟慢了30次。
例：
the highest divorce rate in Europe.
欧洲最高的离婚率。
3. [C 可数名词] 价格
A rate is the amount of money that is charged for goods or services.
双语例句
例：
A special weekend rate is available from mid-November.
周末特价从11月中旬就有了。
4. [C 可数名词] 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.
近义词
percentage
双语例句
例：
The government insisted that it would not be panicked into interest rate cuts.
政府坚持说它不会因恐慌而降低利率。
例：
The card has a fixed annual rate of 9.9 and no annual fee.
该卡每年固定利率为9.9，没有年费。

PHRASE. 习语

at any rate
1. 无论如何
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.
双语例句
例：
His friends liked her–well, most of them at any rate.
他的朋友们很喜欢她– 嗯，无论如何大部分是这样的。
at this rate
1. 照这样下去
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.
双语例句
例：
At this rate they'd be lucky to get home before eight-thirty or nine.
照这样下去，他们能在8：30或9：00前到家就很走运了。

VERB. 动词

rates , rating , rated
1. [I 不及物动词] 评价 , 被评价
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.
双语例句
例：
Of all the men in the survey, they rate themselves the least fun-loving and the most responsible.
在所有参与调查的人中，他们认为自己是最不喜欢玩乐且最负责任的人。
例：
Most rated it a hit.
大部分人认为那是一次辉煌的成功。
例：
We rate him as one of the best.
我们认为他是最优秀者之一。
2. [PASSIVE 被动及物动词] 被评定为 , 被看作
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.
双语例句
例：
He is generally rated the country's No. 3 industrialist.
他被公认为该国第3大实业家。
3. [T 及物动词] 值得
If you say that someone or something rates a particular reaction, you mean that this is the reaction you consider to be appropriate.
近义词
merit
双语例句
例：
This is so extraordinary, it rates a medal and a phone call from the president.
这太了不起了，应该得到一枚奖章并接受总统的电话祝贺。