At least one bank cut its prime rate today.
至少有一家银行今天降低了自己的最低贷款利率。
At the Cut-Rate Drug Store, no one colored was allowed to sit down at the counter or tables, with one exception: my father.
在廉价药店里，任何有色人种都不准坐在柜台或桌子旁，我父亲是个例外。
Rainforests are being cut and burned from Brazil to Indonesia at such a rate that they could well disappear from the earth's surface before the year 2050.
从巴西到印度尼西亚，雨林正在以极快的速度被砍伐和烧掉，到2050年它们将很可能从地球表面消失。
The Bank kept its base rate at 5% this week, but it will be looking to cut before long.
本周英国央行的基本利率维持在5%，而不久以后将谋求降息。
My Emissions Exchange sells the credit on your behalf on the voluntary carbon market at a going rate of between $10 and $25, taking a 20 percent cut on all sales.
我的排放交易网站在自愿的碳市场上以你的名义出售该积分，现行价格为10～25美元，所有交易抽取20%的费用。
As they were abandoned in the early 1980s, capital started flowing round the world at an ever faster rate, with the finance sector taking a cut at every stage.
20世纪80年代初期严格的资本控制被束之高阁，资本就开始以更加快速的速度在世界各地流动，金融部门层层剥削。
Its governor, Duvvuri Subbarao, had interrupted his weekend to lower its "repo rate" -the rate at which it lends to banks-from 8% to 7.5%, having cut it from 9% to 8% only 12 days before (see chart).
央行行长Duvvuri Subbarao取消了他的周末休息，将贷款给银行的利率——“回购利率”从8 %降低到7.5 %，仅仅在12天前该利率从9 %降至8 %(如图)。
Airlines have to cut emissions at a faster rate than the growth in passenger Numbers, or they will find themselves running just to stand still.
航空公司减少二氧化碳排放量的速度必须要比其乘客的增长速度快，否则它们就只能达到事倍功半的效果。
The learning curves of technology cut prices at a rate never before seen.
技术的学习曲线在以前所未有的速率压低价格。
When the Conservatives came to power in 1979, the top rate stood at 83%, but was soon cut.
保守党在1979年当政时，最高税率曾达83%，但是很快就削减下来。
A 25bp cut in the Fed Funds rate, possibly with a steeper cut to the higher discount rate, at which it lends to Banks, looks the most likely prescription.
看起来，美联储最可能开具的药方是：联邦基金利率降低25个基点，并可能更大幅度降低其贷款给各银行所依据的较高的贴现率。
Additionally, rainforests are being cut down at an extremely rapid rate to both pasture cows and grow soybeans to feed cows.
此外，雨林以极快的速度在被砍伐以建奶牛牧场和种植大豆喂养奶牛。
If the rate is at the low end of the range and was lower still before a key pipe on top of the blowout preventer was cut to accommodate the top hat, about half as much oil has been spilled so far.
假如现在这个比率是最低的、并且放在防喷器上方的关键性管道适应了高帽之前、仍然保持低比率，那时候泄漏的油约相当于现在已经漏掉量的一半。
Consumers may cut back on spending now that the main rate of VAT (value-added tax) has returned to 17.5% after 13 months at 15% to counter the recession.
13个月来的增值税的主要比例为应对衰退定为15%，现在回升到17.5%，消费可能减少消费。
The European Central Bank (ECB) tried to rebel but failed: on Thursday January 15th it cut its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point, to 2%, having hinted at a pause only a month ago.
欧洲中央银行（ECB）曾试图反抗，结果却无功而返——本月15日周二，在暗示将暂停本轮扩张仅一月之后，它再次降息半个百分点至2%。
With that carrot dangling in front of them, many white companies were happy to sell their shares to blacks at cut-rate prices or even give them away.
面对挂在面前的胡萝卜，很多白人公司很愿意将股份用打折的价格卖给甚至白送给黑人。
"The markets are still very skeptical about what the real impact is going to be, but at least from the psychological viewpoint this rate cut has already improved some sentiment," Anusorn said.
市场对削减利率真正能有多大影响仍持怀疑态度，但至少在心理上起到了安抚人们的作用。
The odds are high it will also cut its short-term interest rate, now 2%, to 1.5% either at or before its policy meeting at the end of October.
美联储在十月底的政策会上或之前，下调短期利率（从现在的2％调至1.5％）的可能性很高。
If the decline of the landline continues at its current rate, the last cord will be cut sometime in 2025.
如果说按照这个势头衰减下去，到2025年最后一根电话线就会被掐断。
Interest rates have been cut dramatically. American rates are already down to 1%; Britain's are at a 50-year low; and this week China's central bank lopped 108 basis points off its main policy rate.
大幅下调利率：美国利率已降到1%；英国利率降到50年来最低；本周中国央行将基准利率下调了108个基点。
Stocks were cut at a less savage rate than recently too.
股票下跌程度也比最近有所缓和。
Howard Penney, an analyst at Friedman, Billings, Ramsey in New York, thinks Starbucks needs to cut its rate of expansion in America by half. "They are a mature market," he says.
纽约Friedman,Billings,Ramsey公司的分析师HowardPenney认为，星巴克需要减少一半其在美国的扩张速度。他说美国市场是一个成熟的市场。
Contrast this with the hyperactive Fed, which has already slashed its key interest rate from 5.25% to 3% and is expected to cut again at its next scheduled meeting on March 18th.
过分活跃的美联储却相反，美联储把基准利率从5.2%大幅降低到3%，并且估计在3月18日下次联储局会议上还会再次减息。
Bank of England Gov. Mervyn King also said in a newspaper interview that sharply slower growth is likely to push policy makers to cut their key rate, despite annual inflation at 5.2% in September.
英国央行行长默文•金(Mervyn King)接受一家报纸采访时也表示，经济增长急剧放缓可能会促使决策者下调基准利率，尽管9月份年通货膨胀率达到了5.2%。
The typical I.C.U.—including the ones at Sinai-Grace Hospital—cut its quarterly infection rate to zero.
其中，有代表性的ICU（包括在Sinai-Grace医院的）的感染率从原来的四分之一下减到了零。
The fall in commodity prices has at least helped to cut Chile's inflation rate, from 9.9% for the year to October to 7.1% in December.
商品价格的下跌至少能帮助智利削减通胀率，从10月的9.9%下滑到12月的7.1%。
Even without a governor for the bank of Japan, the market is starting to price in a quarter-point rate cut at the bank's next meeting in early April.
尽管日本银行没有领导者，市场已经准备开始在4月初下一次会议上减息四分之一厘。
The BoK also kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at a record-low 2% whilst the Philippine central bank cut its benchmark rate by 25bps to 4%, the sixth cut in seven months.
韩国央行还将基准利率维持在纪录低点2%，而菲律宾央行下调基准利率25个基点到4%，这是七个月来第六次下调基准利率。
Rainforests % are being cut and burned from Brazil to Indonesia at such a rate that they could well disappear from the earth's surface before the year 2050.
译：从巴西到印尼，热带雨林正在被砍伐，被烧毁，其速度非常之快，以致于到不了2050年，热带雨林就会被砍光烧光而从地球表面上彻底消失。
So at the next summit in Brussels, he should declare that, in return for a cut in Ireland's interest rate, he will support the CCCTB, and challenge others to do likewise.
所以在下一次布鲁塞尔峰会上，他应该宣布，作为降低爱尔兰贷款利率的回报，他将支持CCCTB的施行，并会建议其他国家也采用这一制度。
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