Rates

例句/造句/用法:

• The next matter was the financing of the trip, about which Mr. Edison asked in a tentative way about the rates to the East. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• What we pay rates and taxes for I don't know, when any ruffian can come in and break one's goods. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
• 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. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• 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. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• 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·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
• The book of rates is extremely comprehensive, and enumerates a great variety of articles, many of them little used, and, therefore, not well known. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
• Let him name the ransom at which he rates our liberty, and it shall be paid, providing the exaction is suited to our means. 沃爾特·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. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• Give me an example of your meaning, Wamba,--I know nothing of ciphers or rates of usage, answered the Knight. 沃爾特·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. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
• 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. 世紀發明.
• The different rates of profit, therefore, in the different branches of trade, cannot arise from the different degrees of trust reposed in the traders. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• The surface, however, was not at first sufficiently sensitive to admit of sharply defined pictures being secured at the necessarily high rates. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.

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