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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, when Mrs. Wilkes, "a great lady and with a rare gift forsilence," as Gerald characterized her, told her husband one evening, after Gerald's horse had pounded down thedriveway.
-- Except on rare occasions she always wore her riding habit, for whether she rode or not she always expected to rideand in that expectation put on her habit upon arising.
-- Ithought: Miss O'Hara is a girl of rare spirit.
-- Since the return of her wedding ring, Melanie had felt that Rhett was a gentleman of rare refinement and delicacyand she was shocked at this remark.
-- But Melanie,by rare luck, had come into possession of enough gray broadcloth to make a coat a rather short coat but a coat justthe same.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The forge was shut up for the day, and Joe inscribed in chalk upon the door (as it was his custom to do on the very rare occasions when he was not at work) the monosyllable HOUT, accompanied by a sketch of an arrow supposed to be flying in the direction he had taken.
-- Having borne this flattering testimony to the merits of our dwelling-place, and having incidentally shown this tendency to call me "sir," Joe, being invited to sit down to table, looked all round the room for a suitable spot on which to deposit his hat,--as if it were only on some very few rare substances in nature that it could find a resting place,--and ultimately stood it on an extreme corner of the chimney-piece, from which it ever afterwards fell off at intervals.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the witch was very angry, and said, 'Such a cloak is a very rare and wonderful thing, and I must and will have it.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'There was also another kind of root, very juicy, but somewhat rare and difficult to be found, which the Yahoos sought for with much eagerness, and would suck it with great delight; it produced in them the same effects that wine has upon us.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The flutter of her manner, in the unwonted noise of the streets; the spare shawl, carried unfolded on her arm; the heavy umbrella, and little basket; the loose long-fingered gloves, to which her hands were unused; all bespoke an old woman from the country, in her plain holiday clothes, come into Coketown on an expedition of rare occurrence.
-- Down upon the river that was black and thick with dye, some Coketown boys who were at large a rare sight there rowed a crazy boat, which made a spumous track upon the water as it jogged along, while every dip of an oar stirred up vile smells.
-- EXPLOSIONThe next morning was too bright a morning for sleep, and James Harthouse rose early, and sat in the pleasant bay window of his dressing-room, smoking the rare tobacco that had had so wholesome an influence on his young friend.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a rare thing for me to be absent from his lectures.
-- Was I the victim of a madman, or was he a discoverer of rare courage and grandeur of conception?
-- cried M. Fridriksson; "why, we have eight thousand volumes of most rare and valuable works--some in the Scandinavian language, besides all the new publications from Copenhagen."
-- There were but few of what may be called trees--only herbaceous plants, immense turfs, briers, mosses, rare families, which, however, in those days were counted by tens and tens of thousands.
-- Hans may congratulate himself on having made a rare discovery.
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：
-- Ah, God, how rare a thing a man is!They are all dogs that trot and sniff and copulate.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had lived in the house some four months when Monsieur Henri Barronneau had the misfortune to die; at any rate, not a rare misfortune, that.
-- No pictures, no unfamiliar animals, no rare plants or flowers, no natural or artificial wonders of the ancient world all taboo with that enlightened strictness, that the ugly South Sea gods in the British Museum might have supposed themselves at home again.
-- What with his blooming face, and that head, and his blue eyes, he seemed to be delivering sentiments of rare wisdom and virtue.
-- The stars, to be sure, coldly watched it when the nights and the smoke were clear enough; and all bad weather stood by it with a rare fidelity.
-- On rare occasions it flashed up passionately, as she did; but for the most part it was suppressed, like her, and preyed upon itself evenly and slowly.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They availed themselves of the rare privilege to the fullest extent, for some tried the pleasing experiment of drinking mild while standing on their heads, others lent a charm to leapfrog by eating pie in the pauses of the game, cookies were sown broadcast over the field, and apple turnovers roosted in the trees like a new style of bird.
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