詞彙精選：rate的用法和辨析

一、詳細釋義：

n.

率；比率 [C]

例句：

Wages will rise at a rate proportionate to the amount of work you do.

工資將與你所做的工作量成比例增加。

例句：

Populations tend to grow at an exponential rate.

人口趨向於以指數比率增長。

費用，價格；行市 [C]

例句：

What's the going rate for baby-sitters?

請臨時保姆的費用現在是多少？

例句：

What's the rate for direct dial calls?

請問直撥電話的費用多少錢？

速度，速率

例句：

There is a convenient way to determine the rate of hydrolysis of sucrose by an enzyme preparation extracted from the lining of the small intestine.

有一種簡便的方法，測定從小腸絨毛提取的蔗糖酶製備物對蔗糖的水解速度。

例句：

I can write shorthand at the rate of 120 words per minute.

本人能速記，每分鐘速度爲120字。

【英】地方稅

例句：

Just as in that year, when those catastrophes were followed by substantial increases in insurance premiums, insures are already lobbying for rate relief.

就像那年的情況一樣，大災之後保險金大幅度提高，現在保險公司已經在遊說希望減免地方稅。

v.

對...估價；對...評價 [T]

例句：

As a whole, how would you rate our Hotel?

整體來說，閣下如何評價本酒店？

例句：

We rate your services highly.

我們對你的服務評價很高。

認爲；列爲 [T]

例句：

I rate him high as a poet.

我認爲他是一位高尚的詩人。

例句：

I rate him among my benefactors.

我認爲他是我的一個恩人。

【英】給...覈定應繳（地方）稅款，定...的速率；定...的費率（保險費率，運費率）(+at)(+at) [T]

【海】定（船或船員的）等級 [T]

例句：

That hotel doesn't rate five stars at all.

那家旅館根本夠不上五星級。

【口】受歡迎，受推崇(+with) [I]

值得，應得 [T]

例句：

I think we rate a celebration now.

我認爲我們值得慶祝一番。

責罵，怒斥(+at) [I,T]

被評價，被列入等級(+as) [I]

例句：

He was rated as major in 1993.

他在1993年被評爲少校。

二、詞義辨析：

estimate,appraise,assess,evaluate,value,rate

這些動詞均有“估價，估計”之意。estimate通常指由個人作出的主觀估價。appraise指以專家身份作了最終精確的估價。assess原義指對爲確定交多少稅而估計，引申指通過估價以便更好利用。evaluate與appraise相似，指使判斷絕對準確，但多用於對人物的某方面的評價，很少用於評價某物的市場價值。value側重指一般人對某物的價值或價格所作的估計。rate專指評定價值等級的高低。

三、相關短語：

at any rate

ad.1.無論如何，至少

bank rate

n.銀行利率,銀行貼現率

birth rate

人口出生率

cut rate

n.減價

death rate

n.死亡率

discount rate

n. 貼現率

interest rate

n. 1.利率

rate of exchange

n.兌換率

rate of interest

利率

rate of growth

增長率

attrition rate

損耗率，磨損程度，磨損率，退學率

base rate

保證工資

四、參考例句：

We rate your services highly.

我們對你的服務評價很高。

Rate regulation also grow accordingly.

調節幅度也隨之擴大。

The growth rate was unprecedented.

增長率是前所未有的｡

What's the going rate for baby-sitters?

請臨時保姆的費用現在是多少？

I rate him among my benefactors.

我認爲他是我的一個恩人。

I think we rate a celebration now.

我認爲我們值得慶祝一番。

I rate his fortune at $10,000.

我估計他有1萬美元的財產。

What is the rate for printed matter?

郵寄印刷品的郵資是多少？

That joke didn't rate a laugh.

那笑話不值一笑。

The rate of growth was unprecedented.

這個成長率是前所未有的。