1·The agencies, looking backward at the accumulated data, continued to give their top rating to securities that were piling up risk as each week went by and the real estate markets started to wobble.
那些评级机构只是查看以前累积下来的数据后继续给那些债券最高的评级，但随着时间的推移和房地产市场出现的波动，这些债券正在积累大量风险。
2·Since itis highly unlikely that 20-30% of the A-rated bondswill go bust, the rating agencies will give such securities the highest AAA appellation.
因为A级债券中20％-30％发生拖债是极少可能发生的，评级公司将会给这个由A级债券所实现的证券权益以最高的AAA评级。
3·This may mean that we give an updated rating, based on our own knowledge of the issue.
这可能意味着我们会更新问题评级，基于我们对问题的了解。
4·Would you give Britain's prime minister, Gordon Brown a similar rating?
你们会给英国首相布朗同样高的支持度吗？
5·This leaves them conflicted, say critics, as they have an incentive to give the issuer-client the rating it wants so as to win repeat business.
批评家指出：这让它们陷于矛盾，因为它们有给证券发行客户其所需等级以便赢得回头客的动机。
6·And the bottom line on Wall Street is that if you can price a product and give it a risk rating, you can sell it.
华尔街的底线是，假如你能够给产品定价，而且可以给出它的风险指数，那你就能够把它卖掉。
7·One effect of the accord, for example, is to give credit-rating agencies an explicit role, particularly for less sophisticated Banks, in determining how much capital is enough to cover certain risks.
例如，协议的一个影响就是它给予了信用评级公司在决定覆盖特定风险所需的资本金数上一个明确的角色，特别是对决定欠成熟的银行。
8·Usually a study participant would be asked to look at an image and then give it a rating based on how well he or she liked it.
通常，会要求研究对象看一样事物，然后他或她给出对该事物的喜爱程度。
9·America's civil engineers routinely give its transport structures poor marks, rating roads, rails and Bridges as deficient or functionally obsolete.
美国的土木工程师照例为本国的交通基础设施打低分，认为本国公路、铁路、桥梁不足，功能过时。
10·And I asked you to give yourself a percentage rating relative to the rest of the class, then if everybody was accurate, or at least not systematically biased, the number should add up to 50%.
我要你相比于其他同学的表现，给自己一个百分数，如果大家都准确地评价自己，或者说大家都不偏心于自己，那么平均百分数应该是50%的。