英语释义

• if nothing else (`leastwise' is informal and `leastways' is colloquial);

  "at least he survived"

  "they felt--at any rate Jim felt--relieved though still wary"

  "the influence of economists--or at any rate of economics--is far-reaching"

• used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement;

  "Anyhow, he is dead now"

  "I think they're asleep; anyhow, they're quiet"

  "I don't know what happened to it; anyway, it's gone"

  "anyway, there is another factor to consider"

  "I don't know how it started; in any case, there was a brief scuffle"

  "in any event, the government faced a serious protest"

  "but at any rate he got a knighthood for it"

片语

in any case无论如何

for the world（否定句内）无论如何；（肯定句内）每一方面都…

英汉例句

• an eye for an eye, or at any rate a death for a death, is the type of justice that most states still embrace.

  要以眼还眼，无论如何得用一命偿还一命，一直是大多数州在司法制裁方面所恪守的金条玉律。

• now, at any rate in oakland, consumers will have to pay both.

  如今，奥克兰的消费者则至少要付两项税款。

• i say predecessors, for aphorismic literature at any rate was no novelty in spain.

  我说先辈们，对于格言文学来说，在西班牙无论如何都不新奇。

• would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence? or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood.

  人们会不会对下一代同情太多，以至让他们免去来到世上的重任呢？或者至少他不去做这样的事情——冷血地把重负加到下一代身上。

• putting aside the need to earn a living, i think there are four great motives for writing, at any rate for writing prose.

  除去以写作为谋生之计不谈，我认为写作有四种动机，至少小说和散文写作是如此。

• that at any rate is the market view, according to the price of a credit-default swap which pays out if the borrower defaults (see chart).

  至少，这是市场的看法，这是根据如果借款人违约而需要支付的信用违约掉期的价格而得出的结论（见图表）。

• a two-man israeli mission recently went to beijing to try and persuade china not to oppose, or at any rate not to veto, a new un resolution on sanctions.

  今日，由两名以色列大使组成的代表团飞赴北京，试图说服中国不要反对对伊朗核问题新的联合国制裁决议——至少不要投反对票。

• fortunately there is a very considerable amount of work in which new circumstances call for new skill and a man can go on improving, at any rate until he has reached middle age.

  幸而有相当数量的工作随新的情况出现而需要新的技巧，人们可以不断提高自己的技巧，至少可以一直继续到中年以后。

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