Last month,the jobless rate increased by two-tenths of a percent to nine point eight percent.

VOA: special.2010.12.10

So again, part of the point here is that things grow-- or to rephrase it, interesting things grow at an incredible rate.

好，这儿我要说的就是,事情的规模发展到，或者用另外的话说。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

They had the highest literacy rate in the world, point, period, the Dutch did.

荷兰拥有在当时那个时期,最高的识字率

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Minnesota and Utah had the lowest rate twenty-three point one percent.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

Then the relative price of gold versus silver shifted to the point that the gold with at the twenty-one shilling exchange rate the gold shilling was worth less the gold guinea was worth less than twenty-one shilling.

之后，金子相对于银子的相对价格,就移动到另一个值,在二十一个先令的兑换率下,金先令价值少于,金几尼的价值少于了二十一个先令的价值。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The present rate is nine point seven percent.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

I want to make one other point before we launch into that, and that is the following: that composers use the rate of harmonic change-- whether it's changing or not changing-- to sort of make us feel different ways about the music that we are listening to.

在此之前我还要说一个问题，不管和声有没有改变，作曲家都能通过和声改变的频率-,让我们对所听的音乐有不同的感受-,它能让我们感受到这段音乐。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

But the point-one percent jump in the unemployment rate from May was more modest than had been anticipated.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

I do, I have a...a way to think about this... ... some people call it the... The Taylor rule -...Taylor Rule, yeah And it says the rate shouldn't have come down all the way to 3 at this point, maybe, maybe 3.5 or so And that rule basically says that interest rates should adjust according to what's happened to the economy.

没错，关于这个我有自己的思路。,有人将其称为。,泰勒规则，-噢，对，泰勒规则,根据这个规则，利率不应该,一路狂跌至3%，至少也该在3。5%左右,本质上来讲，该规则说明，利率应该,根据经济形势进行调整。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Despite the weak report, the nation's unemployment rate fell 0.2 a point to 9.5 percent as thousands of Americans gave up looking for work.

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

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