Dr.Mark Hamer of University College London says previous research found that smokers have a higher rate of mental illness, specifically depression.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

It was--Modigliani and Miller said back then-- this was thirty or forty years ago-- that companies should really not pay dividends because dividends were then taxed at a higher rate than capital gains.

莫迪利阿尼和米勒说在那时候,大概30或40年前,公司不应分配股利,因为对股利征税的税率比对资本收益高

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That rate of rise is steeper so they--antibody levels go up more rapidly and they reach a higher level.

同时,上升速度也更加迅速,以达到更高的浓度水平

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For example,for men in Swaziland, the difference between the best rate and the worst rate is nine times higher.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

They made the discount rate higher than the Federal Funds Rate; 2.25% so now the Federal Funds Rate is at 2.25%.

他们将贴现率提升至高于,联邦资金利率；,所以现在，联邦资金利率是。

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The results also show that 17% of families in the city were living below the poverty level, 7 points higher than the national rate.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

So, there's a variety of studies suggesting that teachers rate attractive children as smarter and higher achieving.

有各种各样的研究表明,老师会评价好看小孩更聪明，表现更好。

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For individuals, the poverty rate was 21%, almost 8 points higher than the rate nationally.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

Now, of course, there are denominator issues here because we started with a much higher base rate than these other countries, but if you think about the size of the populations there, the number of people who are going to become diabetic in the next twenty-five years is really very frightening.

现在,当然这里存在着分母的问题,我国的增长基数比其他国家要大得多,因为一旦考虑到人口总量,在未来25年成为糖尿病人的人数,就非常非常的惊人了

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That was five percentage points higher than the national rate.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

The discount rate is now only 2.5% twenty-five basis points higher; it's at 2.5%.

贴现率现在只高了,二十五个基本点；是。

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But a 2005 study by the World Health Organization also found France has a higher suicide rate than any other western nation.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

All the sick people will come to you to buy life insurance and they will turn out to have a higher death rate than the population at large.

所有生病的人都会向你购买人寿险,而他们比普通人群,有着更高的死亡率

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She suggests that could help explain why the United States has a higher teen pregnancy rate than any other country in the industrialized world.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

Then later on,whenever you want, you can take your money out Meanwhile, they invest the deposits some way or another at a higher interest rate than they pay on the deposits and they make the difference and that's how they make a profit.

然后你什么时候需要你就可以把钱取出来,同时储蓄机构以比给你的利息,更高的利息储蓄,或者投资，这就出现了差价,这就是储蓄机构盈利的方法。

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U.S.Army personnel predicted the suicide rate would be higher than the total in 2008.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Economists point out that the current jobless rate is already higher than the hypothetical rate that was used to calculate the health of banks and other financial institutions in so-called "stress tests" earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.06.07

Although the U.S.jobless rate continues to spike higher, the actual number of Americans who lost jobs during the month was the smallest since last September, the fourth consecutive month in which the pace of job losses slowed.

VOA: standard.2009.06.07

America's true unemployment rate may, in fact,be higher than the number provided by the Labor Department, which does not include people who searched for work in vain and have given up, or those who settled for part-time work.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02