The key is something called the base rate fallacy.

关键在于所谓的基本率谬误。

The Treasuries are used as kind of a risk-free base rate for things.

美国国债是一种无风险基准利率的事物。

Experts then establish a base exchange rate and use it to compare economies.

专家们然后建立一种基础汇率，用它来比较各国经济。

And our base rate is machines over time do more and more of the heavy lifting, right?

我们的基本速率是，随着时间的推移，机器会做越来越多的繁重工作，对吧？

The central bank's monetary policy committee slashed its base rate by a full percentage point, even though inflation is soaring.

中央银行的货币政策委员会将其基准利率整整削减了一个百分点，尽管通货膨胀正在飙升。

The prudent course, which is standard procedure in the private sector, is to base interest rates on expected risk and reward.

正确的做法，即私营部门的标准程序，是基于预期风险和回报制定利率。

San Francisco has piloted a program like that that raises parking rates based on demand-and it's been shown to reduce cruising.

旧金山已经试行了类似的根据需求提高停车费的计划，而且该计划已经证明可以减少绕圈找停车位的次数。

Under the new law, banks will be prevented from charging more than 4 percentage points above the central bank's base rate.

在该法案框架下，各商业银行禁止收取高于肯尼亚中央银行基准利率的利率，即4%。

The over-five-year LPR, on which many lenders base their mortgage rates, also remained unchanged from the previous reading of 4.3 percent.

五年期以上的贷款最优惠利率也与之前的 4.3% 保持不变，许多贷款机构以此为基准制定抵押贷款利率。

The second example is base rates.

第二个例子是基本费率。

Their base rate is a hundred dollars a day.

他们的基本费率是每天一百美元。

Our minds are not evolved to do base rate computation.

我们的思维还没有进化到可以进行基本速率计算。

So a tracker rate just literally tracks the Bank of England base rate.

因此，跟踪利率只是字面上跟踪英格兰银行的基本利率。

The base rate has gone down to a quarter of 1%, equaling the lowest it has ever been. Here's the BBC's Sally Bundock.

基本利率已经下降到0.25%，这是有史以来最低。请听BBC记者萨丽·邦德克报道。

Base rates are very difficult to think about and I want to give you an example of this.

基本费率很难考虑，我想给你举一个例子。

So a variable-rate mortgage will usually track the Bank of England base rates.

因此，浮动利率抵押贷款通常会跟踪英格兰银行的基本利率。

San Francisco has piloted a program that raises parking rates based on demand—and it's been shown to reduce cruising.

旧金山试行了一项根据需求提高停车费的计划——事实证明它可以减少巡航。

So typically, your new set is a two-hour appointment and I charge at my base rate $110 per hour, so $220 for the initial set.

所以，通常情况下，你的新套餐是两个小时的预约，我按我的基本费率收取每小时110美元，所以最初的套餐是220美元。

They doubt that the bank's base rate, which has been at a three-century low of 0.5% for over four years, will stay there for another three.

他们不断质疑银行的基本利率在四年之内一直保持三百年来的最低态势—0.5%仍将持续至下一个三年。

But because the " base rate" is lower still-there are, mercifully, very few terrorists-even a well-designed system risks sending large numbers of spies off on wild-goose chases.

但是由于“基本比率”仍然较低——幸运的是，恐怖分子很少——即使是一个设计良好的系统也有可能使大量间谍在徒劳的追捕中丧命。