Jeff Levi is one of the authors: "In 1991,there wasn't a single state that had an adult obesity rate over 20 percent."

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

You would probably not even think to say, pay me 3% interest plus the rate of inflation over the next year.

你甚至可能根本不会想到说，支付3%的利息外加来年的通货膨胀率。

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I'm oversimplifying a little bit but between wars the rate tends to come down because people think, well the war is over.

我说得有点过于笼统了,但在战争期间，税率走势却有所下降,因为人们都觉得战争结束了。

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"The unemployment rate could,could, at its worst be over 10 percent before it starts to get better,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.02

If the rate of population growth of the United States between 1820 and 1850 had sustained over time, we'd have today approximately one and a half billion people in the United States.

如果在1820至1850年间,美国人口增长率保持下去的话,今天我们的美国,就会拥有近十五亿人口

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The unemployment rate rose .4 percent over February, leaving more than 13 million Americans without work.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

The interest rate has units of time, so I have to specify a time period over which I'm measuring an interest rate.

不同时间段有不同的利率,因此我必须在不同的时间段,细化不同的利率

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Concerns over security have been especially hard to dispel due to the country's high crime rate.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

What Hicks said is that in these term structures, actually, I've just showed the one-period, he had one-period forward rate-- but you could do it over any combination and you can get forward rates of any maturity at any future date.

希克斯指出利率期限结构中,我刚才给你们演示了,希克斯是如何推导一年期远期利率的,但是你们通过其他组合重新推导,还算出未来任意时刻,期限的远期利率

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Here in the U.S., the rate of obesity doubled over a span of 16 years.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

Data shows the rate of childhood obesity has tripled over the last 30 years.

VOA: standard.2010.03.09

widespread poverty and an unemployment rate of just over 24 percent.

VOA: standard.2009.08.08

Some political analysts argue that the issue is unlikely to gain any traction before then, especially if concerns over the near 10 percent unemployment rate and health care continue to dominate the political agenda.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21