Fixed rate method

fixed [fɪkst]

adj. 固定的，不变的;不易挥发的;处境…的，常作复合词;（比赛等）通过作弊预先安排好结果的; v. 固定( fix的过去式和过去分词);

fix固定+ed被...的 →被固定的

rate [reit]

n. 速度;比率;等级;（利息等的）费率; vt. 估价;值得;责骂;定级; vt.& vi. 认为，把…算作; vi. 被评价;被认为;被列入;申斥;

method ['mɛθəd]

n. 方法;条理;

meth(meta-=after)+od(way)→方法；体系；秩序（=a way after,a following after）

Oh, see you at the polls.

噢， 在投票所见。

He is now out of touch with his old friends.

他现在已经没有和他过去的朋友联系了。

We can perhaps forgive those who said the moons of Jupiter were produced by Galileo's spyglass if we recall that in his day, as for centuries before, curved glass was the popular contrivance for producing not truth but illusion, untruth;

如果我们回想一下伽利略之前几个世纪期间，曲面镜一直是一种用于产生幻影而不是产生真象的把戏装置，那么我们就会原谅那些当时把伽利略观察到的木星卫生说成是伽利略用他的小望远镜变出来的人们，