rare是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 稀有的， 难得的， 珍奇的； 稀薄的， 稀疏的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That was a rare point, Sydney, that you brought to bear upon the identification.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Pray how did you come into possession of this rare print?
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile spring came on, beautiful and kindly, without the delays and treacheries of spring,-- one of those rare springs in which plants, beasts, and man rejoice alike.
-- Rare indeed were the brief periods of peace.
-- "I mix with all the neighboring landowners, who are cultivating their land on a rational system; they all, with rare exceptions, are doing so at a loss.
-- "But if women, as a rare exception, can occupy such positions, it seems to me you are wrong in using the expression 'rights.'
-- Sergey Ivanovitch laughed outright a merry laugh, which was rare with him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He made India his home, only paying brief visits to England at rare intervals; and was almost as familiar as a native with the customs, history, and character of India and its people.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He noted that Madeline was not only a rare and understanding spirit but also an extraordinarily desirable woman--fresh color, tender eyes, adorable slope from shoulder to side.
-- He says you have rare gifts as a laboratory man.
-- Pickerbaugh looked as though that was not exactly the right response, but he recovered and caroled on: "I said to them, 'Gentlemen, I must warn you that I am not sure I possess the rare qualifications needful in a man who shall have the high privilege of laying down, at Washington, the rules and regulations for the guidance, in every walk of life, of this great nation of a hundred million people.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sky was without a cloud and the water was al-most bright blue, which is so rare in the Neva.
-- A light, cool staircase, carpeted with rich rugs, was decorated with rare plants in china pots.
-- He displayed a rare strength of will.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Again,I catch rare glimpses of my mother, moving her lips timidlybetween the two, with one of them muttering at each ear like lowthunder.
-- Why, Daisy, what a rare oldbachelor you are here!'
-- Sometimes, at longintervals and on rare occasions, I saw her.
-- Traddles now informed me, as the result of his inquiries, that themere mechanical acquisition necessary, except in rare cases, forthorough excellence in it, that is to say, a perfect and entirecommand of the mystery of short-hand writing and reading, wasabout equal in difficulty to the mastery of six languages; and that it 488might perhaps be attained, by dint of perseverance, in the course ofa few years.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The voice was unexpectedly attractive; it was the low and dulcet note suggestive of romance; common in descriptions, rare in experience.
-- "Ye be a very rare old spectacle, malter, and we all admire ye for that gift."
-- "You have a rare invention, Sergeant Troy.
-- That entry and exit hereby was only at rare intervals became apparent on noting that tufts of grass were allowed to flourish undisturbed in the chinks of the sill.
-- Deeds of endurance, which seem ordinary in philosophy, are rare in conduct, and Bathsheba was astonishing all around her now, for her philosophy was her conduct, and she seldom thought practicable what she did not practise.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A man might be respected with only one of these advantages, but without either he was considered, except in very rare in-stances, as a vagabond and a slave, doomed to waste his powers for the profits of the chosen few!And what was I?
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