1. Each demanded some payment that was overdue: twelve shillings for the furniture and oilcloth; one pound four and one penny for the General District and Special Rates; and one pound one and fivepence halfpenny for Poor Rate.
    三封信都是催债的，而且每项款都已经过了期。家具和油布十二先令；统税和特税一镑四先令一便士；济贫税一镑一先令五个半便士。

2. By the way,where can I get the best exchange rate for American dollars.
    对了, 我在哪里可以获得最好的美元汇率?

3. But it remains to be seen whether these measures will have enough impact to slow the rate of removing the forests.
    但是要知道这些措施是否会产生足够的影响来减缓砍伐森林的速度，尚须时日。

4. But most of all, you've learned what a "7.6 per cent unemployment rate" really means.
    

5. By announcing this, it joined more than 300 other U.S. companies that had admitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that they had made payments of one kind or another — bribes, extra discounts, etc. — in recent years.
    这一事实的披露，使克莱斯勒与其他300多家美国公司一样，向美国证券交易委员会承认自己近年曾有过某种形式的支出，像贿赂、额外打折等等。

6. When he was alone, he telephoned the hospital exchange and asked for Doctor Millington.
    当房里只剩他一个人时，他挂通了医院的交换台，要求与米灵顿医生讲话。

7. While I had met Roosevelt at large diplomatic receptions in Washington, my contact had been limited to a brief handshake and an exchange of a few words.
    在华盛顿的大型外交招待会上我曾见到过罗斯福，我与他的接触也只局限于短暂的握手和简单的几句交流。

8. Whether or not this is true, the high success rate of arranged marriages in different cultures — 90 percent in Iran, 95 percent in India,
    不管这种说法是否正确，不同文化中包办婚姻的成功率之高，却不由得使人驻足沉思：伊朗90%，印度95%，

9. The rate of interest is 5 percent.
    利率是百分之五。

10. The earth turns round at a uniform rate.
    地球以不变的速度旋转。

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