央行決定，自2007年3月18日起上調金融機構人民幣存貸款基準利率。金融機構一年期存款基準利率上調0.27個百分點，由現(xiàn)行的2.52%提高到2.79% 。請看外電相關報道：

The People's Bank of China (PBOC) raised lending and deposit rates by 0.27 percentage point at the weekend, the latest in a series of tightening measures by an increasingly activist central bank.

The PBOC said in an announcement late Saturday that the benchmark one-year lending rate would be increased to 6.39 per cent while the deposit rate would be set at 2.79 per cent.

報道中的“deposit rates”指的就是“存款利率”，“deposit”在此表示“存款”，如：Customers can make deposits or withdrawals in any of the bank's branches.（儲戶可在這家銀行的任何一家分行存款和提款。）

此外，“一年期存款基準利率”相應的英文表達是“benchmark one-year deposit rates”?！?font color="#990066">Benchmark”指“央行制定的基準利率”，特定語境下（如“外匯牌價”），也可指央行制定的“基準匯率”或“參考匯率”。

順便再提一下“貸款利率”，其相應的英文表達是“lending rates”。


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