1. at this rate : 这样的话;
2. at any rate : 无论如何, 至少;
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1. 速度;速率
The rate at which something happens is the speed with which it happens.
2. 比率;频率
The rate at which something happens is the number of times it happens over a period of time.
3. 价格;费用
A rate is the amount of money that is charged for goods or services.
4. 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.
5. (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.
6. 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.
7. 看好;瞧得上
If you rate someone or something, you think that they are good.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. see also: rating
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
1. the relative speed of progress or change
e.g. he lived at a fast pace
he works at a great rate
the pace of events accelerated
Synonym: pace
2. amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis
e.g. a 10-minute phone call at that rate would cost $5
Synonym: charge per unit
3. a quantity or amount or measure considered as a proportion of another quantity or amount or measure
e.g. the literacy rate
the retention rate
the dropout rate
4. a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit
e.g. they traveled at a rate of 55 miles per hour
the rate of change was faster than expected