sliding scale

英 [ˌslaɪdɪŋ ˈskeɪl]

美 [ˌslaɪdɪŋ ˈskeɪl]

n.  浮动费率制(根据情况上下浮动费率的交纳制度)

牛津词典

noun

• 浮动费率制（根据情况上下浮动费率的交纳制度）
  a system in which the rate at which sth is paid varies according to particular conditions
  1. Fees are calculated on a sliding scale according to income (= richer people pay more) .
     按浮动费率制根据收入高低计算收费。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (工资、税率等按情况变化而调整的)滑准计算法，浮动制
  Payments such as wages or taxes that are calculatedon a sliding scaleare higher or lower depending on various different factors.
  1. Many practitioners have a sliding scale of fees.
     许多从业者都采用浮动制计费。

英英释义

noun

• a wage scale that fluctuates in response to the cost-of-living index

双语例句

• We may offer you allowances on a sliding scale.
  我们也许能给你浮动折扣。
• Usually, there's a sliding scale.
  通常，我们根据你的下注范围。
• This tends to provide students with a sliding scale of right and wrong rather than a set of absolutes.
  这种教育方式倾向于让学生们获得一种对与错的游标卡尺，而不只是一套绝对的标准。
• In Chicago ninth-grade students were rewarded on a sliding scale for good grades in five courses, including English, maths and science.
  在芝加哥，九年级学生们可以因为英语、数学和科学等五门课程的好成绩而获得阶梯式奖励。
• UK income tax is paid on a sliding scale which means that the rate at which you pay tax increases with the level of your income.
  英国的所得税按递进率缴纳，这意味着你缴纳的税率按收入水平的提高而增加。
• More striking still, the administration wants to impose a sliding scale of capital charges to "steer" behaviour.
  还有更为惊人的，政府希望实施一项按比例增减的资本收费方式，以“掌控”交易行为。
• Many practitioners have a sliding scale of fees.
  许多从业者都采用浮动制计费。
• Rapid sliding up or down the musical scale.
  在音阶上迅速滑上或滑下。
• It is important to understand the deformation mechanism, to reduce or eliminate main unfavourate factors of deformation, and to make full use of the self anti sliding ability of large scale landslide in controling landslide by stages.
  对于大型滑坡，弄清其复活变形机制，消除或削弱不利于稳定的主要因素，充分利用其自身的抗滑能力进行分期整治，具有重要意义。
• Countries are rated on a sliding scale: the U.S., for example, has a top rating ( AAA) which allows it to borrow cash at cheap interest rates.
  对于国家的信用评级是浮动的：比如说美国，最高能够拥有3A级的信用评级，这就意味着它可以获得很低的借款利率。