词汇精选：rate的用法和辨析
一、详细释义：
n.
率；比率 [C]
例句：
Wages will rise at a rate proportionate to the amount of work you do.
工资将与你所做的工作量成比例增加。
例句：
Populations tend to grow at an exponential rate.
人口趋向于以指数比率增长。
费用，价格；行市 [C]
例句：
What's the going rate for baby-sitters?
请临时保姆的费用现在是多少？
例句：
What's the rate for direct dial calls?
请问直拨电话的费用多少钱？
速度，速率
例句：
There is a convenient way to determine the rate of hydrolysis of sucrose by an enzyme preparation extracted from the lining of the small intestine.
有一种简便的方法，测定从小肠绒毛提取的蔗糖酶制备物对蔗糖的水解速度。
例句：
I can write shorthand at the rate of 120 words per minute.
本人能速记，每分钟速度为120字。
【英】地方税
例句：
Just as in that year, when those catastrophes were followed by substantial increases in insurance premiums, insures are already lobbying for rate relief.
就像那年的情况一样，大灾之后保险金大幅度提高，现在保险公司已经在游说希望减免地方税。
v.
对...估价；对...评价 [T]
例句：
As a whole, how would you rate our Hotel?
整体来说，阁下如何评价本酒店？
例句：
We rate your services highly.
我们对你的服务评价很高。
认为；列为 [T]
例句：
I rate him high as a poet.
我认为他是一位高尚的诗人。
例句：
I rate him among my benefactors.
我认为他是我的一个恩人。
【英】给...核定应缴（地方）税款，定...的速率；定...的费率（保险费率，运费率）(+at)(+at) [T]
【海】定（船或船员的）等级 [T]
例句：
That hotel doesn't rate five stars at all.
那家旅馆根本够不上五星级。
【口】受欢迎，受推崇(+with) [I]
值得，应得 [T]
例句：
I think we rate a celebration now.
我认为我们值得庆祝一番。
责骂，怒斥(+at) [I,T]
被评价，被列入等级(+as) [I]
例句：
He was rated as major in 1993.
他在1993年被评为少校。
二、词义辨析：
estimate,appraise,assess,evaluate,value,rate
这些动词均有“估价，估计”之意。estimate通常指由个人作出的主观估价。appraise指以专家身份作了最终精确的估价。assess原义指对为确定交多少税而估计，引申指通过估价以便更好利用。evaluate与appraise相似，指使判断绝对准确，但多用于对人物的某方面的评价，很少用于评价某物的市场价值。value侧重指一般人对某物的价值或价格所作的估计。rate专指评定价值等级的高低。
三、相关短语：
at any rate
ad.1.无论如何，至少
bank rate
n.银行利率,银行贴现率
birth rate
人口出生率
cut rate
n.减价
death rate
n.死亡率
discount rate
n. 贴现率
interest rate
n. 1.利率
rate of exchange
n.兑换率
rate of interest
利率
rate of growth
增长率
attrition rate
损耗率，磨损程度，磨损率，退学率
base rate
保证工资
四、参考例句：
We rate your services highly.
我们对你的服务评价很高。
Rate regulation also grow accordingly.
调节幅度也随之扩大。
The growth rate was unprecedented.
增长率是前所未有的｡
What's the going rate for baby-sitters?
请临时保姆的费用现在是多少？
I rate him among my benefactors.
我认为他是我的一个恩人。
I think we rate a celebration now.
我认为我们值得庆祝一番。
I rate his fortune at $10,000.
我估计他有1万美元的财产。
What is the rate for printed matter?
邮寄印刷品的邮资是多少？
That joke didn't rate a laugh.
那笑话不值一笑。
The rate of growth was unprecedented.
这个成长率是前所未有的。
