The Bank of Japan agreed to loan $115 billion to financial institutions for three months at a rate of 0.1 percent.

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

Are you saying that taxing Michael Jordan, say, at a 33 percent tax rate for good causes to feed the hungry is theft?

你是说按33%的税率向乔丹征税,来支持公益事业，解决温饱是盗窃行为吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

The idea of a forward rate is that, implicit in that term structure is also a quote for the one-year rate, one year hence, because if you look at the two-year rate, can't you infer back what interest rates are going to be in one year?

远期利率隐含在期限结构中的,一年期利率报价,起息日是第二年初,因为如果你知道了两年即期利率,就可以很自然地推出一年即期利率

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

At any rate, little optimism remains for the future of six-nation talks aimed at getting rid of North Korea's nuclear weapons.

VOA: standard.2009.05.26

At this rate, car sales in China are expected to overtake the United States for the first time this year.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

With the U.S.unemployment rate at 9.7 percent, the president said he hopes Congress will soon approve incentives for small businesses to add workers.

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

Co-author Andresse St.Rose says, for example,while girls earn high school math credits at the same rate as boys, the myth that girls aren't good at math is persistent and powerful.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26