Rarity
['reərɪtɪ] or ['rɛrəti]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a rarified quality; 'the tenuity of the upper atmosphere'.
(noun.) noteworthy scarcity.
布雷迪錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
埃迪校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Thinness, subtilty.[2]. Uncommonness, infrequency.[3]. Uncommon thing, scarce thing.
整理:莱缪尔
例句/造句/用法:
- 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. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Among the many wild changes observable on familiar things which made this wild ride unreal, not the least was the seeming rarity of sleep. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- In May snow is no rarity in these mountains, the corporal said. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- But your real collector values a thing for its rarity. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- It was just another sudden unexplained rarity of this war. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France then, than at any other time, before or since. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- For this reason they always admire the beauty, utility and rarity of what is abroad, above what is at home. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Rarity, as geology tells us, is the precursor to extinction. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- It seems to be the mere rarity that attracts the average collector. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- 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. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- 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. 雪麗.
- 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. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
編輯:莎蒂