If one chord holds twice as long or only half as long, then we have an irregular harmonic change--irregular rate of harmonic change.
如果某一个和弦持续的时间是两倍或者只有一半，那我们就有了不规则的和声改变——和声改变的不规则比率。
The Japanese people have gradually cut this rate to 2pc, cushioning the effects of the long slump.
日本人民逐渐把这一比率降低到2%，才缓冲了长期低迷的影响。
Auction rate notes gave municipalities, universities, museums and other issuers a vehicle to borrow long, but pay a shorter term interest rate.
当自治区、大学、博物馆等其他机构需要长期租借物品时，拍卖利率债券可以使你以短期利率支付利息。
Although the birds aren't listed as endangered, threats to their populations can pose serious risks, because the species has a long life span and a low reproductive rate.
尽管目前棕颈鹭没有被列入濒危名单，但由于寿命较长，繁殖率较低，它们的种群数量亦面临着严重的威胁。
With the economy remaining frail, the base rate looks set to stay at 0.5% for a long time.
在经济还很孱弱的情况下，基础利率似乎会长时间地钉在0.5%上。
Not long ago, it was anything but dull, expanding at an astronomical rate through one big deal after another.
不久以前，它除了愚钝，还有以天文数字的速度通过一个又一个大交易扩充外，几乎是不值得一提的。
And if they want to spend it on compensation or stock buybacks or dividends, let them pay the long-term capital gains rate.
如果他们将钱花在补偿、股票回购或分红上面，则可以要求他们支付长期资本收益税金。
On your second question, China adopts a managed floating exchange rate regime, which serves the long-term and fundamental interests of China.
关于第二个问题，中国实施有管理的浮动汇率制度，这一机制符合中国长远和根本的利益。
Europe started a long process towards monetary union, via an exchange-rate mechanism, which resulted in a single and free floating currency 30 years later.
欧洲开始了通过一项汇率机制迈向货币统一的漫长过程，30年后，它们拥有了一种自由浮动的单一货币。
If you chose the slide on the right you could also have a simple line chart fade in as you talk about the declining rate as a long-term trend.
如果你选择了右边的胶片，当你在谈论长期下降趋势的时候还会有一条简单的曲线显现出来代表趋势。
Academics have concluded that Japan's quantitative easing had little benefit except to buttress expectations that its policy rate would be zero for a long time.
经济学者的结论认为，除去巩固了有关维持长期零利率的预期之外，日本的定量宽松策略几乎毫无裨益。
Second, the BoJ stated that it would maintain the virtual zero-rate policy until there was "medium - to long-term price stability".
第二，日本央行宣布除非在中长期的物价稳定能够到来，否则他们将坚持实际利率为零的政策。
Second, the BoJ stated that it would maintain its virtual zero-rate policy until there was “medium- to long-term price stability”.
第二，日本银行将维持接近零利率的政策，直到市场达到中期或长期的价格稳定。
The Bronx, with its big public-housing complexes, lower education levels and large unskilled population, long has had the highest unemployment rate in the city.
布朗克斯区由于存在大量公房住宅、教育水平较低和大量非熟练工人，长期以来它一直是纽约市失业率最高的地区。
His evidence is the sharp fall in the saving rate during the long period of low interest rates, from 14% of income in 1993 to 3% last year.
1993年收入的14%作为储蓄到去年的3%，储蓄率在这段长期低利率期间的急剧下滑成为了他的证据。
The Republican Party had long sought to repeal America's inheritance tax, levied at a top rate of 55%.
长期以来共和党一直试图取消美国的遗产税，这项税收的税率最高可达55%。
Unfortunately, the outlook for America's potential growth rate was darkening long before the financial crisis hit.
不幸的是在金融危机之前，美国的潜在增长率前景就长期暗淡。
If we stick to the zero interest rate policy for too long, we risk a degree of economic instability much more extreme and costly than the recent financial crisis.
如果我们维持零利率政策过久，那么未来经济不稳定的程度就有可能比最近的金融危机极端得多，代价也更高。
Unfortunately, several remedies that have been suggested toreduce the rate of long-term unemployment will be ineffective.
不幸的是，几个建议减少长期失业率的药方都不会有效。
If these premiums are constant over time, the central bank can still determine long-term interest rate via changing (market agents' expectations regarding future) short-term interest rates.
如果这些溢价随时间保持不变的话，央行仍然可以通过调整(市场参与者对未来预期的)短期利率来左右长期利率。
“The fact that the long-term rate has generally been flat for the last 18 months suggests the risk premium is rising on questions of the sustainability of Japan’s public debt, ” he says.
事实上在过去的18月里长期利率维持稳定，它表示在日本公共债务稳定性这个问题上风险溢价正在上升。
Global currency regimes tend to come and go in long cycles, with fixed-rate and floating-rate regimes following each other with a surprising degree of regularity.
全球汇率体制的周期往往很长，固定汇率制度和浮动汇率制度以令人惊讶的规律性互相交替。
But at best the economy may be growing at around 2.5%, which is about its long-term potential growth rate.
但是经济最多增长大约2.5%，这大概是长期潜在的增长率。
But at best the economy may be growing at around 2.5%, which is about its long-term potential growth rate.
但是经济最多增长大约2.5%，这大概是长期潜在的增长率。
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