英语单词 | rarely |
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英美音标 | 英 ['reəli] 美 ['rerli] |
中文释义 | adv.很少;难得 |
英语例句 | (1) She rarely went anywhere except to her office. (2) Rarely did he fail to keep his promise. (3) Rarely have I seen such a scene. (4) You shouldn't miss the opportunity to see the play-it's rarely put on. |
中文例句 | (1) 她除了去办公室以外, 很少去别的地方。 (2) 他真的很难得失信。 (3) 我难得看到这样的场面。 (4) 你不要错过看那出戏的机会,它可是难得上演。 |
vocabulary简明 | If you almost never do something, you can say you do it rarely. If you walk or bike to work most days, you could say that you rarely take the bus. |
vocabulary扩展 | Something that happens rarely happens only once in a while, or seldom. You might sigh that your town's baseball team rarely wins a game, or boast that you rarely forget a person's name once you've been introduced. The word comes from the adjective rare, "not occurring often," or "unusual," from the Old French rere, "sparse," and its root, the Latin word rarus, "thinly sown, with intervals between, or full of empty spaces." |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADV-BRD-NEG 广义否定结构副词]难得地;少见地 If something rarely happens, it does not happen very often. [ADV before v]
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