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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And you must admit that there are some rare qualities in this woman.
-- 'Well, really, you know' (silence) 'of course, you know all this is very strange, if true, which I cannot deny; but' (silence). ' But, on the other hand, if one looks things in the face, you know upon my honour, the prince is a rare good fellow and and and well, his name, you know your family name all this looks well, and perpetuates the name and title and all that which at this moment is not stand-ing so high as it might from one point of view don't you know?
-- You would see that all these things are much simpler than you think; and, besides, these rare cases come about, in my opinion, from ennui and from satiety.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was also a cup of rare work-manship which the old man had brought with him from home, studded with bosses of gold; it had four handles, on each of which there were two golden doves feeding, and it had two feet to stand on.
-- In this chest he had a cup of rare workmanship, from which no man but himself might drink, nor would he make offering from it to any other god save only to fa-ther Jove.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I'm rare sorry the darg " "Not a bit," said the stranger.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One or two, whom in a rare access of high spirits I had scarred rather badly, bore me a grudge; but it vented it-self chiefly behind my back, and at a safe distance from my missiles, in grimaces.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had recently seen a chosen army from that country, which, reverencing as a mother, they had blindly believed invincible an army led by a chief who had been selected from a crowd of trained warriors, for his rare military en-dowments, disgracefully routed by a handful of French and Indians, and only saved from annihilation by the coolness and spirit of a Virginian boy, whose riper fame has since diffused itself, with the steady influence of moral truth, to the uttermost confines of Christendom.
-- he said, in a voice as re-markable for the softness and sweetness of its tones, as was his person for its rare proportions; 'I may speak of these things, and be no braggart; for I have been down at both havens; that which is situate at the mouth of Thames, and is named after the capital of Old England, and that which is called 'Haven', with the addition of the word 'New'; and have seen the scows and brigantines collecting their droves, like the gathering to the ark, being outward bound to the Island of Jamaica, for the purpose of barter and traffic in four-footed animals; but never before have I beheld a beast which verified the true scripture war-horse like this: 'He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength; he goeth on to meet the armed men.
-- During this eulogium on the rare production of his na-tive poets, the stranger had drawn the book from his pocket, and fitting a pair of iron-rimmed spectacles to his nose, opened the volume with a care and veneration suited to its sacred purposes.
-- 'This certainly is a rare and brilliant instance of those natural qualities in which these peculiar people are said to excel,' he answered.
-- But speak not a syllable; it is rare for a white voice to pitch itself properly in the woods, as we have seen by the example of that miserable devil, the singer.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But though so bad a painter, he had a very delicate feeling for art, and to go with him to picture-galleries was a rare treat.
-- After all, there are twenty-four hours in the day, and the summits of emotion can only be reached at rare intervals.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It naturally happened that game was more rare in those situations where there was hardly sufficient room to move; two or three large herbivorous animals were however killed during the last fortnight of April.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wonder was, at first, to see a tradesman's window open, but it was a rare thing soon to see one closed; then, smoke rose slowly from the chimneys, and sashes were thrown up to let in air, and doors were opened, and servant girls, looking lazily in all directions but their brooms, scattered brown clouds of dust into the eyes of shrinking passengers, or listened disconsolately to milkmen who spoke of country fairs, and told of waggons in the mews, with awnings and all things complete, and gallant swains to boot, which another hour would see upon their journey.
-- Although her duties were sufficiently laborious, Nell found in the lady of the caravan a very kind and considerate person, who had not only a peculiar relish for being comfortable herself, but for making everybody about her comfortable also; which latter taste, it may be remarked, is, even in persons who live in much finer places than caravans, a far more rare and uncommon one than the first, and is not by any means its necessary consequence.
-- She's a rare fellow at a bargain, I can tell you, Mr Richard.
-- But these were rare occasions, happily; for the child yearned to be out of doors, and walking in her solemn garden.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I admire her as a good, rare person who has suffered much.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He looked across at the Editor, who was a rare visitor, and hoped he was all right.
-- There were three circumstances in particular which made me think that its rare emergence above ground was the outcome of a long-continued underground habit.
-- Here and there I found traces of the little people in the shape of rare fossils broken to pieces or threaded in strings upon reeds.
-- The end I had come in at was quite above ground, and was lit by rare slit-like windows.
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