rate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 速率； 等级； 价格， 费用v. 估价； 评级， 评价，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well!At any rate you know me as a dissolute dog, who has never done any good, and never will.'
-- All the time, our overfraught hearts are beating at a rate that would far outstrip the fastest gallop of the fastest horses ever foaled.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she had unrolled it, strange characters were to be seen written thereon; and the Finland woman read at such a rate that the perspiration 116 Andersen's Fairy Talestrickled down her forehead.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And it won't run to more than twenty-five yards of fagots per acre, and he's giving me at the rate of seventy roubles the acre."
-- "Nikolay Ivanitch was struck," she said, meaning Sviazhsky, "at the progress the new building had made since he was here last; but I am there every day, and every day I wonder at the rate at which it grows."
-- "If they are not, at any rate they are not unhappy; while if they are unhappy, I alone should be to blame for it."
-- He knew he must hire laborers as cheaply as possible; but to hire men under bond, paying them in advance at less than the current rate of wages, was what he must not do, even though it was very profitable.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The worthy fellow was ignorant that, while it was possible by such means to hasten the rate of a steamer, it could not be done on the railway.
-- "Two thousand pounds sacrificed!He's as prodigal as a thief!I'll follow him to the end of the world if necessary; but, at the rate he is going on, the stolen money will soon be exhausted."
-- They perceived that the whole train, rushing on at the rate of a hundred miles an hour, hardly bore upon the rails at all.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Martin was so alienated that he took an anti-social and probably vicious joy in discovering that though the death-rate in tuberculosis certainly had decreased during Pickerbaugh's administration in Nautilus, it had decreased at the same rate in most villages of the district, with no speeches about spitting, no Open Your Windows parades.
-- You say, 'The regularity of the rate at which the streptolysin disappears suggests that an equation may be found--'" "But it can, sir!"
-- who combine presentable personalities with first- rate achievement, and if you'll just get over some of your abruptness and your unwillingness to appreciate big executives and charming women (because, thank God, you do wear your clothes well-- when you take the trouble!)
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pyotr Petro-vitch at any rate was at once moved to compassion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I promised to obey, and went upstairs with my message;thinking, as I went, that if Mr. Dick had been working at hisMemorial long, at the same rate as I had seen him working at it,through the open door, when I came down, he was probablygetting on very well indeed.
-- Adams our head-boy,who had a turn for mathematics, had made a calculation, I wasinformed, of the time this Dictionary would take in completing, onthe Doctor's plan, and at the Doctor's rate of going.
-- cried the little creature, making a whisk athim with the handkerchief with which she was wiping her face,'and don't be impudent!But I give you my word and honour I wasat Lady Mithers's last week- there's a woman!How she wears!andMithers himself came into the room where I was waiting for her-there's a man!How he wears!and his wig too, for he's had it theseten years- and he went on at that rate in the complimentary line,that I began to think I should be obliged to ring the bell.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I cannot rate her beauty as you do,' said he; 'but she is a pretty little creature, and I am inclined to think very well of her disposition.
-- She would keep the peace if pos-sible; and there was something honourable and valuable in the strong domestic habits, the all-sufficiency of home tohimself, whence resulted her brother's disposition to look down on the common rate of social intercourse, and those to whom it was important. It had a high claim to forbear-ance.
-- She said no more, other subjects took their turn; and the rest of the din-ner passed away; the dessert succeeded, the children came in, and were talked to and admired amid the usual rate of conversation; a few clever things said, a few downright silly, but by much the larger proportion neither the one nor the other nothing worse than everyday remarks, dull repeti-tions, old news, and heavy jokes.
-- It is just what I used to say to a certain gentleman in company in the days of courtship, when, because things did not go quite right, did not proceed with all the rapidity which suited his feelings, he was apt to be in despair, and exclaim that he was sure at this rate it would be May before Hymen's saffron robe would be put on for us.
-- Perhaps it will be wisest in you to check your feelings while you can: at any rate do not let them carry you far, unless you are persuaded of his liking you.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- that he knew to a hair's breadth the rate of trotting back from the ewes' tails that each call involved, if a staggerer with the sheep crook was to be escaped.
-- He was being carried along the road at a rate rather considerable for a vehicle without springs, and under circumstances of physical uneasiness, his head being dandled up and down on the bed of the waggon like a kettledrum-stick.
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