Even when he was nationally famous in the 1850s he resembled a clerk in a third-rate brokerage house, with slips of paper—marked-up proofs perhaps—hanging out of his pockets or stuck in his hat.
即使在19世纪50年代他是全国知名人物时，他也像个三流经纪行的职员，也许还会把一些可能是有标记证明的纸片挂在他的口袋外面或插在他帽子里。
A, first-rate script, second-rate actor, third-rate performance.
一流的剧本，二流的演员，三流的表演演。
The second-and third-rate ones do their best but do not get very far.
第二流和第三流的科学家竭尽全力，却无法走得很远。
Don't dry tore photos, burn, tore diary kind of third-rate love someone in the drama.
别干撕照片，烧信，撕日记这样一类三流爱情电视剧中才有人干的事。
It also exposed the consequences of filling your administration with third-rate hacks.
飓风也暴露任命三流人物行政的严重后果。
Annink, secretary of the Belgian Embassy in France, part-time a third-rate entertainment magazine reporter.
比利时驻法国大使馆的秘书，兼职一个三流娱乐杂志记者。
Being as the important component of colleges and universities, the third-rate university aims to cultivate the applied talents.
三本学院作为高校的重要组成部分，以培养应用型人才为目标。
I looked out from behind the curtain and surveyed the house. it was a tawdry affair call cupids and cornucopias like third-rate wedding-cake.
我从帷幔后边扫视整个剧场。真是俗不可耐，尽布置些爱神和丰饶角热闹得像个三等的婚礼蛋糕。
The third-rate article is the makeup of words, the second-rate article is the makeup of spirit, and the first-rate article is the makeup of life.
三流的文章是文字的化妆，二流的文章是精神的化妆，一流的文章是生命的化妆。
But Cronkite sensed there was something more to the story than a third-rate burglary. He pleaded with the Post to share their documents as tangible proof.
但克朗凯意识到，这则新闻不单纯是三流的窃盗案。他请求邮报分享他们手上的文件，以当做真凭实据。
Of course, I didn't feel like sharing anything else. How could I compete with all those other interruptions. It felt like anything I was saying was third-rate.
我当然不愿意在与他分享其他事情。任何干扰都可以打断交谈！这让我有种感觉，我说得任何事情都不值一提。
This depression-era tale of life with a third-rate traveling circus centers on orphaned animal caretaker Jacob, the woman he loves and her cruel and abusive husband, who happens to be the boss.
这部小说以大萧条时期为背景，主角是一个三流巡回马戏团中的三名成员——孤儿出身的动物看守员雅各布，他爱上的女人（马戏团明星）和她残暴的丈夫（刚巧他又是雅各布的上司）。
Most advanced countries of the world today have a corporate profits tax rate for large corporations of about a third.
当今世界上大多数发达国家针对大公司的企业所得税税率约为三分之一。
There is some truth to that; the property-tax rate here is one-third lower than the state average.
这是有一定道理的；这里的房产税率比州平均水平低三分之一。
Though the new figure still represents only about a third of those who could benefit, the rate of increase is impressive.
尽管新的数据仍然只代表着受益人数的三分之一，但是增长的比例令人印象深刻。
In other words, the consensus sees little likelihood of the unemployment rate falling from its level in the third quarter of 9.6%.
这另一方面说明，经济学家认为第三季度美国失业率仍将高居9.6%，下降的可能微乎其微。
Statistics show Scotland to be one of the least enterprising parts of Britain, with a business birth rate about a third lower than the average.
数据表明苏格兰是英国最不具事业心的地区之一，该地区的新生企业数量比平均水平要低三分之一。
Yet over 20 years the price has almost doubled, while America’s marriage rate is down by nearly a third.
纵观过去的20年，虽然结婚率降低几近三分之一，而婚礼费用却几乎翻番。
But lack of speed in implementation garnered the third lowest rate of satisfaction.
但缓慢的运行速度却在各方面满意度中名列倒数第三。
Admittedly that is only a third of the rate at which humanity dumps the stuff into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels, but it certainly helps to slow down global warming.
无可否认，这仅仅是人类燃烧化石类燃料向大气层中排放速率的三分之一，但它的确有利于减缓全球变暖的进程。
The Labour Department reported that productivity soared by 9.5% at an annualised rate in the third quarter, a rate surpassed only once since 1983 (in 2003).
美国劳工部报告指出，第三季度年化生产率激增9.5%，自1983年来，该数据只有在2003年的时候突破过。
The euro-wide jobless rate is up by less than a third, compared with a doubling across the Atlantic.
欧元地区的失业率上升了不到三分之一，相比之下大西洋对岸美国的失业率是欧洲的两倍。
GDP seemed set for a small drop in the third quarter, after shrinking at an annualised rate of 0.7% in the three months to June.
欧元区四到六月三个月的GDP年均率为0.7%，之后开始缩水，到第三季度已经有小幅下滑了。
In fact, property owners don't rent out their second and/or third homes resulting in a high vacancy rate.
事实上，那些有两套甚至三套房子的人，并没有把他们 多余的房子都出租出去，因此，房屋空置率很高。
America's total saving rate fell in the third quarter of last year to only 10% of GDP, barely half its level a decade ago.
美国的整体储蓄率在去年的第三季度下降到只占GDP的10%，几乎是十年之前的一半。
Texas has the third-highest rate of teenage births, after Mississippi and New Mexico.
德克·萨斯的青少年生育率位居全国第三，排在密西西比和新墨西哥之后。
Texas has the third-highest rate of teenage births, after Mississippi and New Mexico.
德克·萨斯的青少年生育率位居全国第三，排在密西西比和新墨西哥之后。
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