A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
率
Rate
At this rate, I'll live forever.
照这个速度，我将永远活着。
The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
成功的方法是将错误率提高一倍。
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
我认为热情甚至比专业技能更重要。
Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate.
不要走捷径，也不要接受二流的东西。
Opt for a fixed-rate rather than an adjustable-rate mortgage.
选择固定利率抵押贷款，而不是可调利率抵押贷款。
I rate each album as better than the last one. That's how I see it.
我认为每一张专辑都比上一张好。我就是这么看的。
I'm Boombastic rated as the best. The best you should get nothing more nothing less.
我是婴儿潮时期出生的人，被评为最好的。最好的你不应该得到更多也不应该得到更少。
It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.
如果你选择的是你真正喜欢的人，那么失败率并不高。
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
但无论如何，关键是没有人承认上帝的存在，而每个人都是真实存在的。
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
我们所有人都未能实现完美的梦想。因此，我对我们的评价是基于我们出色地完成了不可能完成的任务。
The loyalty rate isn't that high. I could have a big hit, then put out the next single, and they say, Oh yeah, who are you? Prove it again.
忠诚度不是那么高。我可以有一个大的成功，然后推出下一个单曲，他们说，哦，是的，你是谁?再次证明这一点。
We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.
我们已经留出数千万英亩的西北森林作为永久用地。失业率不是上升了，而是下降了。经济增长了。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of themselves a 'rate of production,' for whom it's a matter of pride to complete, say, a book every year.
所有小说家都必须在某种程度上以他们作品的慢速形成他们的个人契约。有些人要求自己有一个“生产速度”，比如说，每年完成一本书对他们来说是一件值得骄傲的事情。
Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
任何加速都是进步，光荣小姐。大自然并不了解现代的工作速度。从技术的角度来看，整个童年都是一派胡言。只是浪费时间。简直是浪费时间。