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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is no rare thing to meet in the middle of the ocean whales so sound asleep that they can be successfully attacked, and Ned Land had harpooned more than one during its sleep.
-- "Just the liberty to go, to come, to see, to observe even all that passes here save under rare circumstances the liberty, in short, which we enjoy ourselves, my companions and I."
-- Amongst these specimens I will quote from memory only the elegant royal hammer-fish of the Indian Ocean, whose regular white spots stood out brightly on a red and brown ground, an imperial spondyle, bright-coloured, bristling with spines, a rare specimen in the European museums (I estimated its value at not less than L1000); a common hammer-fish of the seas of New Holland, which is only procured with difficulty; exotic buccardia of Senegal; fragile white bivalve shells, which a breath might shatter like a soap-bubble; several varieties of the aspirgillum of Java, a kind of calcareous tube, edged with leafy folds, and much debated by amateurs; a whole series of trochi, some a greenish-yellow, found in the American seas, others a reddish-brown, natives of Australian waters; others from the Gulf of Mexico, remarkable for their imbricated shell; stellari found in the Southern Seas; and last, the rarest of all, the magnificent spur of New Zealand; and every description of delicate and fragile shells to which science has given appropriate names.
-- It was the "large emerald bird, the most rare kind."
-- Shells are all right-handed, with rare exceptions; and, when by chance their spiral is left, amateurs are ready to pay their weight in gold.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was his wonderful, desirable life-rapidity, the rare quality of an utterly desirable man: and there was at the same time this ridiculous, mean effacement into a Salvator Mundi and a Sunday-school teacher, a prig of the stiffest type.
-- "The dominant principle has some rare antagonists."
-- His managers, who were all rare men, were no more expensive than the old bungling fools of his father's days, who were merely colliers promoted.
-- Well you'll have a rare poppy-show if you put all the things you've mentioned into your bouquet."
-- "Yes, I want a rare poppy-show."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Guests are so exceedingly rare in this house that I and my dogs, I am willing to own, hardly know how to receive them.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I don't know if you have ever thought what a rare thing flame must be in the absence of man and in a temperate climate.
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