rarely是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 难得, 非常地，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Ah!my dear, but Perry had many doubts about the sea doing her any good; and as to myself, I have been long per-fectly convinced, though perhaps I never told you so before, that the sea is very rarely of use to any body.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness, but they possibly did with Oak to-night, for the delight of merely seeing her effaced for the time his perception of the great difference between seeing and possessing.
-- There was something in the woman's tone which is not that of the wife, and there was a manner in the man which is rarely a husband's.
-- The vast difference between starting a train of events, and directing into a particular groove a series already started, is rarely apparent to the person confounded by the issue.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- De-spondency rarely visited my heart; a high destiny seemed to bear me on, until I fell, never, never again to rise.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he lay awake at night thinking of all the charming gallantries he might haveemployed; but he rarely got a second chance, for the girls left him alone after a trial or two.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After that day, a day rarely passed without her drawing the hammer on her slate, and without Orlick's slouching in and standing doggedly before her, as if he knew no more than I did what to make of it.
-- He told us that he held the whole house, but rarely used more of it than we saw.
-- Herbert was rarely there less frequently than three times in a week, and he never brought me a single word of intelligence that was at all alarming.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For although few men will avow their desires of being immortal, upon such hard conditions, yet in the two kingdoms before mentioned, of Balnibarbi and Japan, he observed that every man desired to put off death some time longer, let it approach ever so late: and he rarely heard of any man who died willingly, except he were incited by the extremity of grief or torture.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life.
-- She had no inducements to go back, and had rarely gone.
-- During the whole term of this recess from the guardianship of the Bank, Mrs. Sparsit was a pattern of consistency; continuing to take such pity on Mr. Bounderby to his face, as is rarely taken on man, and to call his portrait a Noodle to its face, with the greatest acrimony and contempt.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was one of those yellow-leaved volumes now rarely found on stalls, and to me it appeared to possess but little value.
-- "One of the most curious volcanoes in existence, the crater of which has been rarely visited."
-- They very rarely succeed in a good show of yellow.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Clifford rarely talked much at these times.
-- They are easily moved, and of-ten affectionate, but they rarely have any abiding passion of any sort.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So did the horses with drowsy bells, in long files of carts, creeping slowly towards the interior; so did their recumbent drivers, when they were awake, which rarely happened; so did the exhausted labourers in the fields.
-- It so rarely happened that anybody seemed to want him, it was such an exceptional case when his powers were in any request, that his misty mind could not make out how it happened.
-- A walk was in itself a new enjoyment to him, and one that had rarely diversified his life afar off.
-- Shining metal spires and church-roofs, distant and rarely seen, had sparkled in the view; and the snowy mountain-tops had been so clear that unaccustomed eyes, cancelling the intervening country, and slighting their rugged heights for something fabulous, would have measured them as within a few hours easy reach.
-- Every day it refined more and more into a marked respect, very rarely shown by age to youth, and still more rarely susceptible, one would have said, of the fitness with which he invested it.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So rarely is it beheld, that though one and all of them declare it to be the largest animated thing in the ocean, yet very few of them have any but the most vague ideas concerning its true nature and form; notwithstanding, they believe it to furnish to the sperm whale his only food.
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