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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Major was fortunate enough, however, to hit one very rare animal with a ball in the leg.
-- They managed their immense property with rare ability and uncommon energy.
-- Quadrupeds, and even birds, are rare on these inhospitable shores, so that the Maories have always eaten human flesh.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But you know the hotel ink and the hotel pen, where it is rare to get anything else.
-- Poor Sir Charles's head was of a very rare type, half Gaelic, half Iver-nian in its characteristics.
-- 'It would be a rare place for a gallop.'
-- That is where the rare plants and the butterflies are, if you have the wit to reach them.'
-- 'It's a very rare bird practically extinct in England now, but all things are possible upon the moor.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a very strange feature in this case, strange because of its extremely rare occurrence.
-- Varvara was a girl of some twenty-three summers, of middle height, thin, but possessing a face which, without being actually beautiful, had the rare quality of charm, and might fascinate even to the extent of passionate regard.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You may have seen many a quaint craft in your day, for aught I know; square-toed luggers; mountainous Japanese junks; butter-box galliots, and what not; but take my word for it, you never saw such a rare old craft as this same rare old Pequod.
-- But the captain, having some unusual reason for believing that rare good luck awaited him in those latitudes; and therefore being very averse to quit them, and the leak not being then considered at all dangerous, though, indeed, they could not find it after searching the hold as low down as was possible in rather heavy weather, the ship still continued her cruisings, the mariners working at the pumps at wide and easy intervals; but no good luck came; more days went by, and not only was the leak yet undiscovered, but it sensibly increased.
-- We all know how they live upon whales, and have rare old vintages of prime old train oil.
-- Look at his hump, which would be as fine eating as the buffalo's (which is esteemed a rare dish), were it not such a solid pyramid of fat.
-- It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Occasionally, when there was some more than usually interesting inquest upon a parish child who had been overlooked in turning up a bedstead, or inadvertently scalded to death when there happened to be a washing--though the latter accident was very scarce, anything approaching to a washing being of rare occurrence in the farm--the jury would take it into their heads to ask troublesome questions, or the parishioners would rebelliously affix their signatures to a remonstrance.
-- 'I mind the time,' said the first speaker, 'when she would have done the same, and made rare fun of it afterwards.'
-- asked Mr. Giles, with as much pride as if Oliver were some bird of rare plumage, that he had skilfully brought down.
-- When the birds were made all spruce and smart for the day, there was usually some little commission of charity to execute in the village; or, failing that, there was rare cricket-playing, sometimes, on the green; or, failing that, there was always something to do in the garden, or about the plants, to which Oliver (who had studied this science also, under the same master, who was a gardener by trade,) applied himself with hearty good-will, until Miss Rose made her appearance: when there were a thousand commendations to be bestowed on all he had done.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I learned here again to observe, that it is very rare that the providence of God casts us into any condition so low, or any misery so great, but we may see something or other to be thankful for, and may see others in worse circumstances than our own.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With rare exceptions the meals were acceptable, being the kind that an ordinary servant can arrange.
-- A dainty, self-conscious swaying of the hips by a woman was to him as alluring as the glint of rare wine to a toper.
-- He was really touched by it, and looked into the eyes of it with a rather rare feeling for him.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do you think that I want to lose the opportunity to taste such a rare fish?
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