【rate音标】 英[reɪt] 美[reɪt]
【单词释义】 rate是什么意思：
n.速度；比率；等级；（利息等的）费率；费用
vt.估价；值得；责骂；定级
vt.&vi.认为，把…算作
vi.被评价；被认为；被列入；申斥
[单词分级] 高考英语词汇
[单词复数] rates [第三人称单数] rates
[单词现在分词] rating
[单词过去式] rated
[单词过去分词] rated
【常用短语】
at any rate 无论如何，至少
at this/that rate 照此情形；如此下去
【单词例句】
◇ It is true she had on a pair of slippers when she left home, but they were not of much use. They were very large, so large, indeed, that they had belonged to her mother, and the poor little creature had lost them in running across the street to avoid two carriages that were rolling along at a terrible rate.
当她离家出门的时候，脚上的确穿着一双拖鞋的，但是那是一双相当大的拖鞋 —— 的确太大了，那是她妈妈以前穿的。这可怜的小家伙在匆忙横穿马路的时候，两辆马车飞快地闯过来，吓得她把拖鞋跑丢了。
◇ Now, Lina has become a specialist in human beings’ emergency sickness. Her kindness and considerate behavior to the poor were well known. The organization she founded carried out campaigns and welfare projects to help cut the death rate for the poor.
现在，丽娜已经成为一名人类紧急病症专家。她对穷人的好心和考虑周到的一举一动都众所周知，她建立的组织开展各种活动和福利项目来为穷人减少死亡率。
---- A Woman Doctor-Lina
◇ "Provided the music has a calm, regular beat, it can actually help us to stay calm, reducing our stress, slowing our heart rate, and moderating our pulse," says Dr. Spelman. "This makes it easier for us to focus on the task at hand rather than entering into 'flight or fight' mode, in which it can be very difficult to think clearly because of our elevated levels of adrenaline and cortisol."
斯佩尔曼博士表示：“如果背景音乐的节拍比较平静、有规律，它实际上可以帮助我们保持平静，减轻我们的压力，减缓我们的心跳，调节我们的脉搏。这使我们更容易专注于手头的任务，而不是进入‘逃跑或战斗’模式，在这种模式下，由于肾上腺素和皮质醇水平升高，我们会很难清晰地思考问题。”
---- Listening to classical music at work boosts productivity
◇ There is much more to color than meets the eye. Strangely enough, us humans have a close emotional bond with the visible light aspect of the electromagnetic spectrum, a bond so strong it can easily make us feel stressed out with a raised heart rate or leave us with a warm and fuzzy sense of satisfaction.
色彩，远不止我们眼睛看上去的那么简单。但奇怪的是，我们人类与这些电磁波谱上的可见光，竟有着说不请道不明的情感联系，这种联系如此强烈，以至于它很容易能让我们心率加快甚至感到压力，又或者让我们有一种温暖而模糊的满足感。
---- What is the world's most relaxing color?
◇ The increase, up from the current count of 7.7 billion people, is expected despite a continued decline in the global fertility rate, which has fallen from 3.2 births per woman in 1990 to 2.5 births per woman this year.
尽管全球生育率持续下降，但预计届时这一数字仍将远超目前的77亿人口。全球生育率从1990年的3.2下降到今年的2.5。