I watched CNN for a while yesterday while waiting for a meeting and they kept going back to the big news that the Federal Reserve cut the prime lending rate by 0.75%.

昨天，我在等会议开始的时间里看了会儿CNN，电视里反复播放着“美联储将基本放款利率降低了0.75％”。

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They have to, because the state we're in now with technology is just the beginning - that rate of change is only going to get faster and faster.

他们只能如此，因为我们所处的技术时代才刚开始，变革的速度只会越来越快。

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In this article, I’m going to share the lessons I learned that doubled my reading rate, allowed me to consume over 70 books in a year and made me a smarter reader.

我将与大家分享一些关于快速阅读的经验。 这些经验使我的阅读速度提高了一倍，让我在一年的时间里读完了70多本书，也让我变成了一个聪明的读者。

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"At the rate we're going,we are expected to spend one-fifth of our economy on health care within a decade.

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So, reporters start calling the other rating agencies-- Standard & Poor's and Moody's and others--and say, are you going to down-rate these guys?

于是记者们开始询问其他的评级机构,像是标准普尔和穆迪,问他们,你们打算给这些公司降级吗

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In the early post-war period, the corporate--now I'm going to talk-- there's a distinction between the rate that they charge and the actual amount that they take.

在战后初期,公司的...我要说明的是,政府规定的税率,与实际征收的税率之间存在着差异

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If you don't have all the cash up front, you can prepay for a semester or even a few units of classes each year, at the then-going rate.

FORBES: College Dropout

Floating-rate, rather than fixed-rate, exchanges are going to require the holding of customer funds in national currencies.

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The lowest late-payment rate on TransUnion records going back to the mid-1990s was 0.56 percent, set in the third quarter of 1994.

NPR: Average Credit Card Debt, Late Payments Fall In 1Q