【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】
◇ But only 14% of plastic packaging is collected for recycling. The reuse rate is terrible compared to other materials -- 58% of paper and up to 90% of iron and steel gets recycled.
但是，全球只有14%的塑料袋得以回收利用。纸张再用率为58%，而钢铁的循环使用率可高达90%，相较于这些资源，塑料的再使用情况则相当糟糕。
---- More plastic than fish in oceans by 2050
◇ "China has already made extraordinary progress. It's a fact that China has lifted more people out of poverty at the fastest rate anywhere and anytime in history already."
福斯特说：“中国已经取得了非凡的成就。历史上从没有哪个国家像中国这样迅速帮助如此多的人脱离贫困，这一点无可否认。”
---- Eliminating poverty builds larger market
◇ This process is automated by the aptly named autonomic nervous system, which is the same system that controls many things your body does all by itself such as digestion and heart rate.
这一过程由自主神经系统自动控制，这个系统也控制着你身体自动运转的许多方面，比如消化和心率。
---- Only One Side of Your Nose Gets Blocked at a Time
◇ 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。
---- World's population could swell to 10.9 billion by 2100
◇ 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。