It is worth paying a high price to stave off a liquidity crisis over New Year: better that weak Banks are able to borrow at the same rates as strong ones than that they are not able to borrow at all.
为了避免在新的一年出现流动性危机，付出如此高昂的代价是完全值得的：对弱小的银行来说，能够以与强大的银行相同的利率借款，比完全借不到不知好上多少。
Germany was at the scheme's heart: currencies were officially pegged to each other in a complex grid of bilateral rates but all were, in effect, tied to the D-mark.
德国是这个计划的核心：各货币在一个复杂的双边利率框架中被正式联系在一起，实则被绑定到德国马克上。
There is something odd about central bankers denying any responsibility at all for long-term rates, which are, in principle, based partly on an assessment of a stream of short-term rates.
奇怪的是中央银行家们完全否认长期利率的任何责任，而原则上长期利率部分基于对短期利率变动的估计。
So the net effect of all that Fed monetary tightening has not raised mortgage rates at all.
美联储所有货币紧缩措施的净效果，根本没有抬高按揭利率。
The well-connected executive can use any number of voice-over-internet services to make free calls; but the rural poor, if they have phones at all, must pay high rates.
一个掌握了便捷联系方式的执行官可以使用网上声讯服务去拨打任意数量的免费电话。但是对于贫苦的农民，即使他们有电话的话，也要付高费用。
But not all parents can afford the hourly rates at centers like Sylvan.
但并非所有家长都能负担得起像sylvan中心开出的小时费率。
The economists don't expect the central bank to raise rates at all until sometime around August 2010 amid continued high unemployment.
经济学家认为，在失业率居高不下的情况下，2010年8月之前美联储不会上调利率。
Despite the mandatory conversion into renminbi, many people held onto their dollars, or bought them at inflated exchange rates, if they could find a seller at all.
尽管有着强制兑换的命令，但许多人坚持持有自己的美元，或以极高的汇率买入它们——如果能在任何地方找到销售者的话。
Only 32 countries were formerly believed to be at risk of not achieving education for all on the basis of enrollment rates.
如果以注册率为根据，以前仅有32个国家被认为面临着无法实现全民教育的风险。
Since 2000 all countries have returned to growth, some at very fast rates.
从2000年开始，所有的国家重新出现增长，有些国家增速飞快。
In all our exciting 2050 projections, including those updated for the recent paper, we have assumed that Brazil, Russia, India and China all grow at notably slower rates than currently.
在我们所有激动人心的2050年预测中，包括那些在最新报告中修正过的预测，我们一直认为巴西、俄罗斯、印度和中国的经济增速将明显比现在低。
In periods of growth, it raised interest rates slowly, if at all, stubbornly refusing to acknowledge the course of asset prices.
在经济增长期，美联储固执地拒绝承认资产价格的变化轨迹，即便提高利率，速度也相当缓慢。
But researchers also found that those who drank moderately had better survival rates than those who did not drink at all.
但是，研究人员还发现，那些适度饮酒者的存活率比那些根本不饮酒的人更高。
Foreign demand for advanced machinery is huge; exports of civilian aircraft, drilling tools, telecommunications equipment, agricultural machinery and excavators all rose at double digit rates in 2007.
对于高级机械的海外需求巨大，2007年民航业出口、钻类工具、电信设备、农业器具和开凿机等皆以两位数字增长。
Online travel agencies, on the other hand, experience either smaller increases in conversion than supplier websites or, more often, no change at all in conversion rates.
另一方面，在线旅行社网站的转化率相比供应商网站有小幅的提高，但是在多数情况下是没有什么变化。
The Federal Reserve is now looking at depressing long-term rates, and it is not at all clear that they will hit any minimum boundary if or when they drive these rates down.
联储现在正注视着让人担忧的长期利率，现在还不清楚如果或当联储将这些利率降低时，长期利率是否会触至某个谷底。
According to the American cancer Society, pancreatic cancer has one of the lowest five-year survival rates, at about 5 percent over all for all stages.
根据美国癌症协会的说法，胰腺癌是五年的存活率最低的癌症之一，在其各个阶段大概只有5%。
Those remedies are not available now: interest rates are already low and rich-country currencies cannot all depreciate at once.
而我们今天却没有这样的补救良方：利率已经很低了，而发达国家的货币又不能同时马上贬值。
Research into breast cancer has been a great success story, with survival rates at an all-time high.
乳腺癌的研究已经取得了很好的成绩，病人存活率一直在上升。
He doesn't expect it to raise rates at all this year, and only to 1% by the end of 2011.
他预计今年完全不会加息，利率到2011年末之前也仅会涨至1%。
Across the country, college enrolment rates are at an all-time high.
纵观全国，高校入学率空前高涨。
I took a look at unemployment rates about a year ago, and I got to wondering if it's changed at all over the past year.
我查阅了过去一年的失业率，怀疑过去一年里失业率是否发生了变化。
Spirits are taxed at all sorts of rates, depending on what they are made from and even how old the brand is.
对不同种类的烈性酒的纳税，取决于其产地及品牌。
The other side of it is interest rates were at all-time low.
另一方面是，利率空前的低。
He said: "Under those circumstances, cutting rates by only a quarter-point or, worse still, not at all, would risk undoing all the improvement stemming from this week's emergency cut."
他说：“在这种情况下，减息二十五个基点于事无补，什么都不作将会更加糟糕，如果这样的话，通过本周紧急减息得到的喘息之机将会毁于一旦。”
He said: "Under those circumstances, cutting rates by only a quarter-point or, worse still, not at all, would risk undoing all the improvement stemming from this week's emergency cut."
他说：“在这种情况下，减息二十五个基点于事无补，什么都不作将会更加糟糕，如果这样的话，通过本周紧急减息得到的喘息之机将会毁于一旦。”
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