The system can be treated as linear near the benchmark point.

运行基准状态点（操作点）附近，可作为线性系统处理。

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The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point, to 4.75%.

美国联邦储备委员会将基准利率降低了半个百分点到4.75%。

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The benchmark lending rate dropped a full percentage point, to 2.75 percent.

基准借贷利率整整下跌了一个百分点，达到2.75%。

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The researchers found that the stodgy pension funds, which tend to invest pretty heavily in bonds, lagged behind the benchmark by about a percentage point.

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The benchmark lending rate was reduced by 0.25 percentage point late Thursday to 6.31% and the benchmark deposit rate to 3.25%, the first cut in borrowing costs since December 2008.

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As expected, the Tuesday meeting delivered another 25 basis-point increase in the benchmark interest rate, to 4.25%, but the language of the accompanying statement contained both hawkish and dovish signals.

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