Banks with too little cash could borrow at the ceiling rate.

现金太少的银行可以按最高利率借。

Now, the rate of borrowing sits at between 5 and 5.25 %.

现在，借利率在5%至5.25%之间。

Its government currently pays about 3.5% to borrow for ten years.

其政府目前的10年期借利率约为3.5%。

It's seen as a step intended to reassure financial markets and keep long-term borrowing rates low indefinitely.

外界认为这一举措旨在安抚金融市场，期地将长期借利率保持在低位。

But Janet Yellen said borrowing rates would remain low for, in her words, a " considerable amount of time" .

但珍妮特·耶伦称借利率仍“在相当长的间内”保持很低。

In other countries, even fixed-rate borrowers will face soaring mortgage costs soon enough.

在其他国家，即使是固定利率借人也将很快面临飙升的抵成本。

Is it the interest rate that's being charged on your borrowings?

这是对您的借收取的利率吗？

Interest rates are the prices borrowers of money pay to the lenders.

利率是借人支付给人的价格。

Higher mortgage rates have already had a major impact on spending.

【impact】较高的抵借利率已经对消费产生了巨大的影响。

That will insulate borrowers as rates rise.

这将使借人在利率上升免受影响。

Include among prices the interest rate on money borrowed and the cost of getting paychecks cashed.

价格中包括借利率和兑现工资的成本。

The cost of floating-rate borrowing has rocketed.

浮动利率借的成本飙升。

Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored mortgage provider, says that more than half of mortgage borrowers have a rate at or below 4%.

政府资助的抵提供商房地美 (Freddie Mac) 表示，超过一半的抵借人的利率等于或低于 4%。

According to Bank of America, around 40% of borrowing by firms in the index is taken on at a floating rate.

据美国银行称，该指数中约有 40% 的公司借是以浮动利率进行的。

At that time, Brusuelas said, a productivity increase - an early result from the sudden use of laptops, cellphones, and the internet - helped keep borrowing rates low.

布鲁苏拉说，当生产率的提高--这是笔记本电脑、手机和互联网突然使用的早期结果--有助于将借利率保持在较低水平。

You've probably borrowed on a floating-rate basis, which means that your interest payments go up and down in line with the benchmark interest rate.

您可能以浮动利率借，这意味着您的利息支付与基准利率一致。

And so to put some numbers to this, as of March, nearly 60% of borrowers had locked in a rate at or below 4%, OK?

FONSECA：所以，从数字来看，截至 3 月，近 60% 的借人将利率锁定在 4 或以下，好吗？

In some countries, such as America and Denmark, it has long been common to borrow on fixed rates, allowing people to insulate themselves from central-bank rate rises.

在美国和丹麦等一些国家，长期以来以固定利率借很常见，这样人们就可以免受央行加息的影响。

The credit of the new government, established by the Revolution, we may believe, must have been very low, when it was obliged to borrow at so high an interest.

我们可以相信，革命建立的新政府的信用一定很低，因为它不得不以如此高的利率借。

The Federal Reserve has the power to manipulate the federal funds rate, which is the interest rate that Federal Reserve banks charge other banks like yours to borrow money.

联邦储备系统有权操纵联邦基金利率，这是联邦储备银行向其他银行（如你的银行）借收取的利率。