Clever people, abetted by the rating agencies, set out to pass off poor credit as AAA, because they stood to make a lot of money.

受到评级机构煽动的聪明人，宣布要终止AAA差级信用，因为他们想要赚更多的钱。

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Rank - a rank scale applies to a set of data that is ordinal (the values and observations belonging to it can be put in order or have a rating scale attached).

定序尺度(rank)—定序尺度可应用于一组有顺序的数据，有顺序指的是属于该尺度的值和观察值可以按顺序排列或附带有评级尺度。

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The E.P.A. has recently set rules for measuring and rating the energy use of servers.

环保署最近规定了关于服务器测定和额定能源使用的规程。

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The idea was that the --so he set up Moody's Rating Agency and the job of Moody's was to give letter grades to securities; it was a little bit like a bank, but it was different because he didn't actually make the loans.

主旨是... 因此他成立了穆迪评级机构,穆迪的工作就是用字母给证券评级,这有点像银行,但还是有区别,因为他并不发放贷款

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As I noted in a post last week, Citigroup a week ago picked up coverage of an assortment of solar stocks, and set a Buy rating on SunPower shares.

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Even without an investment-grade rating, the Philippines had attracted sufficient quantities of foreign investment to set off an appreciation of the peso, to roughly 40 pesos to the U.S. dollar this year from between 43 and 44 pesos to the dollar in 2011.

WSJ: Review & Outlook: Manila Makes the Upgrade

The vast majority of districts reached deals that set up four-tiered rating systems based in part on student scores on standardized tests.

WSJ: Judge Blocks Cuomo Cuts for Schools