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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The plateau to which the seven men were clinging, holding on by tufts of lichen, and giddy and terrified in the extreme, was rushing down the declivity with the swiftness of an express, at the rate of fifty miles an hour.
-- However, it seemed as if good rough hugging did not hurt sick people; at any rate it did not hurt Robert, but quite the contrary.
-- It was not that he was so glad to see a real Patagonian, by whom he looked a perfect pigmy—a Patagonian who might have almost rivaled the Emperor Maximii, and that Congo negro seen by the learned Van der Brock, both eight feet high; but he caught up Spanish phrases from the Indian and studied the language without a book this time, gesticulating at a great rate all the grand sonorous words that fell on his ear.
-- They dashed along at a prodigious rate for a full hour, dreading every minute to come across the mangled corpse of Robert.
-- "Yes, yes, or at any rate a coppice."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ptitsin, as was well known, was engaged in the business of lending out money on good security, and at a good rate of interest.
-- His lieutenants had worked so hard from five o'clock until eleven, that they actually had collected a hundred thousand roubles for him, but at such terrific expense, that the rate of interest was only mentioned among them in whispers and with bated breath.
-- She thought that possibly Aglaya, or at any rate someone sent by her, would be present incognito at the ceremony, or in the crowd, and she wished to be prepared for this eventuality.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vouchsafe me then this prayer suffer us to es-cape at any rate with our lives, and let not the Achaeans be so utterly vanquished by the Trojans.'
-- But if they have too much on their hands to let them come, at any rate let Ajax son of Telamon do so, and let Teucer, the famous bowman, come with him.'
-- You had better both come if you can, or it will be all over with him directly; the leaders of the Lycians are upon him, men who have ever fought desperately heretofore; if you have too much on your hands to let both come, at any rate let Ajax, son of Telamon, do so, and let Teucer, the fa-mous bowman, come with him.'
-- O father Jove, lift this cloud from over the sons of the Achaeans; make heaven serene, and let us see; if you will that we perish, let us fall at any rate by daylight.'
-- Therein he slew Thersilochus, Mydon, Asty-pylus, Mnesus, Thrasius, Oeneus, and Ophelestes, and he would have slain yet others, had not the river in anger taken human form, and spoken to him from out the deep waters saying, 'Achilles, if you excel all in strength, so do you also in wickedness, for the gods are ever with you to protect you: if, then, the son of Saturn has vouchsafed it to you to destroy all the Trojans, at any rate drive them out of my stream, and do your grim work on land.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He reminded me of it with considerable vigour; but at any rate I prevented a fight.
-- At any rate the Thing, whatever it was, lacked the courage to attack me.
-- It was at any rate something to try.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here their progress was less interrupted; and the instant the guide perceived that the females could com-mand their steeds, he moved on, at a pace between a trot and a walk, and at a rate which kept the surefooted and pe-culiar animals they rode at a fast yet easy amble.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Supposing it possible that they are not engaged, what distress would not such an enquiry inflict!At any rate it would be most ungenerous.
-- At any rate I shall expect you to-morrow.
-- Every qualification is raised at times, by the circumstances of the moment, to more than its real value; and she was sometimes worried down by officious condolence to rate good-breeding as more indispensable to comfort than good-nature.
-- But so little interest had he taken in the matter, that he owed all his knowledge of the house, garden, and glebe, extent of the parish, condition of the land, and rate of the tithes, to Elinor herself, who had heard so much of it from Colonel Brandon, and heard it with so much attention, as to be entirely mistress of the subject.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter II WHAT POVERTY THREATENED--OF GRANITE AND BRASS Minnie's flat, as the one-floor resident apartments were then being called, was in a part of West Van Buren Street inhabited by families of labourers and clerks, men who had come, and were still coming, with the rush of population pouring in at the rate of 50,000 a year.
-- "Well, I don't know as I'd care to change," said Carrie, who was already turning over the three-dollar rate in her mind.
-- "I couldn't pay any such rate as that."
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