Rarity
['reərɪtɪ] or ['rɛrəti]
解释:
(noun.) a rarified quality; 'the tenuity of the upper atmosphere'.
(noun.) noteworthy scarcity.
布雷迪录入--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The quality or state of being rare; rareness; thinness; as, the rarity (contrasted with the density) of gases.
(n.) That which is rare; an uncommon thing; a thing valued for its scarcity.
埃迪校对
同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. Thinness, subtilty.[2]. Uncommonness, infrequency.[3]. Uncommon thing, scarce thing.
整理:莱缪尔
例句:
- If a man has just eaten, or if he is well fed generally and the opportunity to hear music is a rarity, he will probably prefer the music to eating. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Among the many wild changes observable on familiar things which made this wild ride unreal, not the least was the seeming rarity of sleep. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- In May snow is no rarity in these mountains, the corporal said. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- But your real collector values a thing for its rarity. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- It was just another sudden unexplained rarity of this war. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France then, than at any other time, before or since. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- For this reason they always admire the beauty, utility and rarity of what is abroad, above what is at home. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- Rarity, as geology tells us, is the precursor to extinction. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- It seems to be the mere rarity that attracts the average collector. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Mr. Hale spoke of him as always the same; indeed, the very rarity of their intercourse seemed to make Mr. Hale set only the higher value on it. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- During a two years' sojourn in Italy he had collected many good paintings and tasteful rarities, with which his residence was now adorned. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- I opened it in his own presence, and showed him the small collection of rarities I made in the country from which I had been so strangely delivered. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
编辑:莎蒂