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词汇 rare
释义 rare
adjective
uk /reər/ us /rer/

rareadjective (NOT COMMON)


B1
not common or frequent; very unusual: 稀少的;罕见的;不常发生的
a rare disease/species罕见疾病/稀有物种
The museum is full of rare and precious treasures.这家博物馆里收藏的满是奇珍异宝。
a rare occasion/opportunity/visit/treat, etc.难得的时机/机会/探访/款待等
[ + to infinitive ]It's very rare to find these birds in New England in winter.在新英格兰地区,冬天很少能看到这种鸟。
It's very rare to find someone who combines such qualities.具有此类综合素质的人是非常罕见的。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

unusual
unusualThat's an unusual name - where does it come from?
uncommonIt's not uncommon(= it is common) for people to become ill when they travel.
rareThis is a rare opportunity to visit the building.
unconventionalI had a very unconventional childhood.
uniqueThis is your chance to own a unique piece of jewellery.
 rare beast
someone or something unusual:
He's that rare beast: a rapper who can sing.
A hole in one is a rare beast that few professional golfers achieve even once in their career.
They mainly deal in rare books.他们主要经营珍本图书。
The coast here abounds with rare plants.这里的海岸边生长着大量珍稀植物。
Talent like hers is rare in someone so young.像她这样年轻又有如此才能者实属罕见。
The word itself is so rare as to be almost obsolete.这个词本身就十分罕见,几乎要被淘汰了。
He has a collection of rare insect specimens.他收集了很多稀有昆虫的标本。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Unique and unusual
accidental
alt-
alternative
atypically
be marked out as somethingidiom
flip
flip the scriptidiom
guerrilla
home brew
incongruous
peerless
personalization
personalized
quaintly
quaintness
unforgettably
unique
uniquely
unmatchable
unmatched

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Scarce, inadequate and not enough

rareadjective (OF MEAT)


C1
(of meat) not cooked for very long and still red: (肉)煮得半熟的,煎得嫩的
I'd like my steak rare, please.请把我的牛排煎嫩些。
Compare
mediumadjective(MIDDLE)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Preparing food using heat
air fryer
bain-marie
baking
baking parchment
barbecue
blanch
cooking
deep fat fryer
deep-fried
deep-fry
done
overdone
pan-fry
parboil
poach
poaching
undercook
underdone
warm (someone/something) up
wood-fired

rareadjective (OF AIR)


used to describe the air at the top of a mountain, which contains less oxygen, making it harder to breathe(山顶空气)稀薄的
See also
rarefied(LITTLE OXYGEN)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Weather & climate - general words
aneroid barometer
anthelion
aurora
aurora australis
aurora borealis
climate
climatology
element
forecast
general circulation model
glaciology
glass
interglacial
isotherm
low-pressure
mercury
meteorologically
microclimate
pollen count
rarefied

Related word


rareness

See also


rare breed

Idiom


have a rare old time

rare | American Dictionary


rare
adjective
us/reər/

rareadjective (NOT COMMON)


not common and therefore sometimes valuable:
rare species of birds
Success like that is extremely rare.
She’s usually positive, but on rare occasions disappointment shows through.
With rare exceptions, the families in this town have lived here for generations.

rareadjective (SLIGHTLY COOKED)


[ -er/-est only ]
(esp. of meat) not cooked for very long and still red inside:
rare steak

Examples of rare


rare
Yet so many other factors also influence epistemic convictions that purely national styles may be relatively rare.
Second, she shows that the notion that merchant families survived for three successive generations was quite rare.
For this analysis, rare alleles were combined, thereby reducing a total of 124 alleles over the six microsatellites down to 49 allele classes.
He found that serious injury was rare following an incident as either intervention or luck tended to prevent significant harm in the majority of cases.
As choreoathetosis is an exceedingly rare complication of bypass with many potential causes, prospective cohort studies are unlikely to provide sufficient delineation of risk factors.
Typically, if an equal distribution assumption is made, we can predict which views of objects are likely and which ones are rare.
Rare species in communities of tropical insect herbivores: pondering the mystery of singletons.
Rare observations of important events such as birth, predation, innovation, and teaching can be vitally important in directing research toward potentially important areas.
On the rare occasions where we present definitions out of sequence, we will explain what we are doing.
There are good teachers in higher education who organize such debates, but they are rare.
In the four remaining polymorphisms, the rare allele is at most present in three sequences out of 20.
In unilinguals, conceptual features may be transferred from a frequently used word to its rare quasi-synonym, possibly from a different sociolinguistic register.
Consider first the fact that faucal consonants are relatively rare in languages of the world.
However, research on morphological awareness is relatively rare.
Subsequent residential relocation was rare and typically proved extremely difficult, requiring government approval and reassignment.
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