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：
-- Let us, then, sell our lives at such a rate as shall make our enemies believe the purchase too dear.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In fact, a balloon, as a ball might be carried on the summit of a waterspout, had been taken into the circling movement of a column of air and had traversed space at the rate of ninety miles an hour, turning round and round as if seized by some aerial maelstrom.
-- At any rate the passengers, destitute of all marks for their guidance, could not have possessed the means of reckoning the route traversed since their departure.
-- In a few hours the wind had changed from a hurricane to a fresh breeze, that is to say, the rate of the transit of the atmospheric layers was diminished by half.
-- "Well, my boy," said he to Herbert, "if I don't know the name of these trees, at any rate I reckon that we may call them 'burning wood,' and just now that's the chief thing we want."
-- At any rate their clothes would last at least six months longer, for they were strong, and could resist the wear of manual labor.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Among his various eccentric habits he had a humorous one of always cheating at cards, which rendered necessary on his part, not only a close observance of the game, and a sleight-of-hand in counting and scoring, but also involved the constant correction, by looks, and frowns, and kicks under the table, of Richard Swiveller, who being bewildered by the rapidity with which his cards were told, and the rate at which the pegs travelled down the board, could not be prevented from sometimes expressing his surprise and incredulity.
-- CHAPTER 33As the course of this tale requires that we should become acquainted, somewhere hereabouts, with a few particulars connected with the domestic economy of Mr Sampson Brass, and as a more convenient place than the present is not likely to occur for that purpose, the historian takes the friendly reader by the hand, and springing with him into the air, and cleaving the same at a greater rate than ever Don Cleophas Leandro Perez Zambullo and his familiar travelled through that pleasant region in company, alights with him upon the pavement of Bevis Marks.
-- After passing and repassing the carriage on the road, and being passed and repassed by it sundry times in the course of the night, according as their stoppages were longer or shorter; or their rate of travelling varied, they reached the town almost together.
-- The old gentleman is helped into the chaise with great obsequiousness by Mr Sampson Brass; and the pony, after shaking his head several times, and standing for three or four minutes with all his four legs planted firmly on the ground, as if he had made up his mind never to stir from that spot, but there to live and die, suddenly darts off, without the smallest notice, at the rate of twelve English miles an hour.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, what rate do you intend to assess," asked Nekhludoff.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At any rate I did my best to display my appreciation of the gift.
-- The Morlocks at any rate were carnivorous!Even at the time, I remember wondering what large animal could have survived to furnish the red joint I saw.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well, at any rate it's a great comfort,' she said as she stepped under the trees, 'after being so hot, to get into the into what?'
-- 'At any rate I'd better be getting out of the wood, for really it's coming on very dark.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was not only useless as an officer and a bad influence amongst the men, but it was plain that at this rate he must soon kill himself outright, so nobody was much surprised, nor very sorry, when one dark night, with a head sea, he disappeared entirely and was seen no more.
-- By this time we had got so far out of the run of the current that we kept steerage way even at our necessarily gentle rate of rowing, and I could keep her steady for the goal.
-- He had risen from his position to his hands and knees, and though his leg obviously hurt him pretty sharply when he moved for I could hear him stifle a groan yet it was at a good, rattling rate that he trailed himself across the deck.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under the combined efforts of the wind and its four hundred horse power, it was going at the rate of thirteen knots.
-- "Very well!suppose this weapon to be six times stronger and the animal ten times more powerful; launch it at the rate of twenty miles an hour, and you obtain a shock capable of producing the catastrophe required.
-- It was quite evident that at that rate we should never come up with it.
-- We heaved the log, and calculated that the Abraham Lincoln was going at the rate of/2 miles an hour.
-- The course of the waves, that went from south-east to north-west at the rate of two and a half miles, broke on the coral that showed itself here and there.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even in that he seemed to belong to her, rather than to the rest of the company; though, he thought to himself, he was always well washed, at any rate at the neck and ears.
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