Rates

例句:

• The next matter was the financing of the trip, about which Mr. Edison asked in a tentative way about the rates to the East. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• What we pay rates and taxes for I don't know, when any ruffian can come in and break one's goods. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• It should cut down the rates for using wire and cable systems, and ultimately place the means of communicating directly with any one on land or sea within the reach of every man. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• These ordinary or average rates may be called the natural rates of wages, profit and rent, at the time and place in which they commonly prevail. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• That rates of toll have been imposed on steam carriages which would prohibit them being used on several lines of roads, were such charges permitted to remain unaltered. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The book of rates is extremely comprehensive, and enumerates a great variety of articles, many of them little used, and, therefore, not well known. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I think the Church-rates guesses who I am, and I know the Water-works does, because I drew a tooth of his when I first came down here. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Let him name the ransom at which he rates our liberty, and it shall be paid, providing the exaction is suited to our means. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The importation of other sorts of grain was restrained at rates and by duties, in proportion to the value of the grain, almost equally high. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Give me an example of your meaning, Wamba,--I know nothing of ciphers or rates of usage, answered the Knight. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• He was a grain buyer and the agent for several insurance companies and he also loaned money at high rates of interest. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The number of workers in the art, both men and women, has vastly increased instead of being diminished, while their wages have greatly advanced over the old rates. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The different rates of profit, therefore, in the different branches of trade, cannot arise from the different degrees of trust reposed in the traders. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The surface, however, was not at first sufficiently sensitive to admit of sharply defined pictures being secured at the necessarily high rates. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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