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rarely

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adv.很少地,罕有地

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rarely


adv not often; seldom 不常
*I rarely eat in restaurants. 我很少在饭馆吃饭.
* (fml 文) Only rarely do I eat in restaurants. 我极少到饭馆就餐.

rarely


adv
not often
frequently
 She very rarely complains.
 This method is rarely used in modern laboratories.
WORD CHOICE: rarely, seldom, hardly, scarcely
Rarely and seldom both mean 'not often'. Seldom is more formal or literary : People rarely ask questions. |She was seldom seen in public. | The disease is rarely fatal.
Hardly and scarcely both mean 'almost not' or 'only just'. For example, if you hardly had time to do something, you almost did not have time. Scarcely is more formal or literary : I hardly had time to ask her name. |We had scarcely arrived when he asked us to leave.
Hardly and scarcely can also be used with 'ever' to mean 'not often, almost never', with 'any' to mean 'very few, almost none' etc : I've got hardly any money left. | Hardly anyone agreed with her.
In speech, it is usual to say that you hardly ever do something, rather than that you rarely do it : I hardly ever go to the cinema.

1. Big Ben has rarely gone wrong.
    "大本"钟很少出差错。

2. It is very rarely that one comes across a dead body, except, of course, on the roads.
    但是,除非在路上,很少有人遇到这些动物的尸体,

3. These flowers are rarely seen in this country.
    这些花在该国很少见。

4. The remains of plants and animals that lived on land are much more rarely preserved,
    曾在陆地上生活过的动植物的遗体被保存下来的更为罕见,

5. The customer service person, Julie, was helpful with this. "I'm not going to say we never have accidents or even that we rarely have accidents.
    顾客服务员朱莉在这一点上帮了大忙。"我不敢说我们从没有出过意外,或者很少有意外,

6. The British and the French rarely marry each other.
    英国人和法国人很少通婚。

7. Kidnappers are rarely interesting in animals, but they recently took considerable interest in Mrs Eleanor Ramsay´s cat.
    绑架者很少对动物感兴趣,可是最近对埃莉诺・拉姆奇夫人的猫却产生了很大的兴趣。

8. Kidnappers are rarely interested in animals, but they recently took considerable interest in Mrs. Eleanor Ramsay´s cat.
    绑架者很少对动物感兴趣。最近,绑架者却盯上了埃莉诺.拉姆齐太太的猫。

9. Humboldt wrote: "From earliest youth I had dreamed longingly of travelling in faraway countries, rarely visited by Europeans.
    洪堡写道:“很小的时候,我就做梦憧憬着去远方那些欧洲人很少去过的国度旅行。

10. An advertisement which begins with the magic word FREE can rarely go wrong.
    凡是用"免费"这个神奇的词开头的广告很少会失败的。

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