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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may have been a peculiarity at any rate it was a fact that when Bathsheba was swayed by an emotion of an earthly sort her lower lip trembled: when by a refined emotion, her upper or heavenward one.
-- I only mention this to bring to your mind that at any rate I would wish to do you no harm: beyond that I put it aside.
-- At any rate she murmured something to the effect that he might stay if he wished.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Where else in Paris would they have found wholesome food in sufficient quantity at the prices she charged them, and rooms which they were at liberty to make, if not exactly elegant or comfortable, at any rate clean and healthy?
-- "An old man who lives at the rate of two louis a month in the Faubourg Saint-Marceau, where I, a poor student, lodge likewise.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ball had entered my shoulder, and I knew not whether it had remained there or passed through; at any rate I had no means of extracting it.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "With Carreen afraid of thepoor beasts and Sue with hands tike sadirons when it comes to reins and you, Puss " "Well, at any rate I've never been thrown," cried Scarlett indignantly.
-- They couldn't be more than fifteen miles from home, but at the rate this old nag traveled it would take all day, forshe would have to stop frequently to rest him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When it broke out again, the soldiers made for it at a greater rate than ever, and we after them.
-- We were waiting, I supposed, for Mr. Pocket to come out to us; at any rate we waited there, and so I had an opportunity of observing the remarkable family phenomenon that whenever any of the children strayed near Mrs. Pocket in their play, they always tripped themselves up and tumbled over her,--always very much to her momentary astonishment, and their own more enduring lamentation.
-- "What do you suppose," said Mr. Jaggers, bending forward to look at the ground, and then throwing his head back to look at the ceiling,--"what do you suppose you are living at the rate of?"
-- "At the rate of, sir?"
-- And at the rate of that handsome sum of money per annum, and at no higher rate, you are to live until the donor of the whole appears.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the young man refused to do it: so the fox said, 'I will at any rate give you good coun-sel: beware of two things; ransom no one from the gallows, and sit down by the side of no river.'
-- If it were a pig now like that fat gentleman you are driving along at his ease one could do something with it; it would at any rate make sausages.'
-- 'If the wild beasts in the forest had but devoured us, we should at any rate have died together.'
-- 'Do as you please,' said the old woman, 'but at any rate take this pretty apple; I will give it you.'
-- Then he took leave of his father, and set himself in the boat, but before it got far off a wave struck it, and it fell with one side low in the water, so the merchant thought that poor Heinel was lost, and went home very sorrowful, while the dwarf went his way, thinking that at any rate he had had his re-venge.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He replied, 'that, by the laws of the kingdom, I must be searched by two of his officers; that he knew this could not be done without my consent and assis- 31tance; and he had so good an opinion of my generosity and justice, as to trust their persons in my hands; that whatever they took from me, should be returned when I left the coun-try, or paid for at the rate which I would set upon them.'
-- There could not be few-er than thirty persons with their wives and children (for the country is very populous;) and my master demanded the rate of a full room whenever he showed me at home, al-though it were only to a single family; so that for some time I had but little ease every day of the week (except Wednes-day, which is their Sabbath,) although I were not carried to the town.
-- The second was of an opinion directly contrary; 'to tax those qualities of body and mind, for which men chief-ly value themselves; the rate to be more or less, according to the degrees of excelling; the decision whereof should be 237left entirely to their own breast.'
-- The wind was very favour-able; however, I made use at first only of my paddles; but considering I should soon be weary, and that the wind might chop about, I ventured to set up my little sail; and thus, with the help of the tide, I went at the rate of a league and a half an hour, as near as I could guess.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Something to be worked so much and paid so much, and there ended; something to be infallibly settled by laws of supply and demand; something that blundered against those laws, and floundered into difficulty; something that was a little pinched when wheat was dear, and over-ate itself when wheat was cheap; something that increased at such a rate of percentage, and yielded such another percentage of crime, and such another percentage of pauperism; something wholesale, of which vast fortunes were made; something that occasionally rose like a sea, and did some harm and waste (chiefly to itself), and fell again; this she knew the Coketown Hands to be.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ever since we had taken our departure from the newly named Port Gretchen, my worthy uncle had directed me to keep a regular log of our day's navigation, with instructions to put down even the most minute particulars, every interesting and curious phenomenon, the direction of the wind, our rate of sailing, the distance we went; in a word, every incident of our extraordinary voyage.
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