rarity
美 [?rer?ti] 
英 [?re?r?ti]
- n.罕見；稀有；珍品；稀有物
- 網絡稀少；諾瑞德；稀有性
詞形變化
復數：rarities 同義詞
英漢雙解
1. | [c] 珍品；稀有物a person or thing that is unusual and is therefore often valuable or interesting |
| Women are still something of a rarity in senior positions in business. 在商界位居高職的女性仍然十分罕見。 |
| His collection of plants contains many rarities. 他收藏的植物包括許多稀有品種。 |
2. | [u] 稀有；罕見the quality of being rare |
| The value of antiques will depend on their condition and rarity. 古董的價值依它們的保存狀況和稀有程度而定。 |
英漢解釋
英英解釋
例句
But while widely known as indefatigable, Mr Cayne is something of a rarity in the world of Wall Street workaholics.
凱恩雖以不知疲倦著稱，卻是華爾街工作狂中的異數。
TMAdV's rarity in humans could make it a potentially powerful tool as a viral vehicle for delivering gene therapy, Chiu adds.
Chiu補充說，伶猴腺病毒（TMAdV）在人類身上罕見，這讓它可能成為一個潛在的強大工具，在基因治療中充當病毒載體。
Although something of a rarity, it may become more common as sunflower seeds are increasingly appearing in food.
雖說這是少見的現象，不過，由于食物中越來越多地用到了葵花子，這種過敏也許會越來越普遍。
Among the many wild changes observable on familiar things which made this wild ride unreal, not the least was the seeming rarity of sleep.
在這次荒唐的騎馬旅行中他發現許多日常事物發生了近于虛幻的荒唐變化，睡眠很少似乎并不是其中最小的變化。
All of these factors add up to make Gliese the most promising evidence yet that Earth-like planets may not be such a rarity after all.
所有這些因素使得格利澤581g（譯注：原文為格利澤，應是格利澤581g之誤）最有希望成為地球類行星并不稀有的明證。
As a result, finding such a large, complete specimen was something of a rarity, he said.
所以，發現如此巨大的完整的魷魚很少見。
For perspective, think back just a few decades when China was dubbed the "bicycle kingdom" with passenger cars a rarity.
至于其發展前景，回顧一下歷史就知道了——就在幾十年前，中國還被戲謔為“自行車王國”，轎車還是稀罕物。
It is something of a rarity. If this were a bird, the queues would be stretching round the car park.
它是一些罕見的事情，如果這是一只鳥，人龍會伸展至圍繞停車場。
Because of its rarity, IBC is often misdiagnosed as mastitis or generalized dermatitis.
由于其稀有性，IBC被誤診為乳腺炎往往或全身性皮炎。
"What's the big deal? I'm not that special, " he said. "I'm just a scholar who said a few things and I'm considered a rarity. "
“有什么了不起的呢？我沒什么特別的，”他說，“我只是一個教書匠，不過說些實話，就被認為是稀有的了。”
"If all this stimulus has no effect on the economy, that would be a rarity indeed, " says Paulsen.
“這些刺激手段不太可能對經濟一點都不奏效，”鮑爾森說道。
You know, when I grew up in India, telephones were a rarity.
你們知道，在我小時候電話可是一種稀有的東西。
That might seem ridiculous to ask of an institution like Goldman Sachs, whose third-quarter loss stands out for its rarity value.
這個問題對于像高盛這樣在稀缺價值上損失四分之三的機構來說是很可笑的。
A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France then, than at any other time before or since.
在法國南部，八月炎熱的日子里驕陽當空，在那之前或之后這都不是什么稀罕的事。
A third person in the house had been a restraint, and the moments alone with her husband had gained a sweetness by their comparative rarity.
當時這屋子里的第三者曾經是他們的一種束縛，而她和她丈夫單獨在一起的時刻能得到一種稀有的愉快。
The delight of the children at the sight of some dish on the table showed that it was a rarity.
孩子們看見桌上的菜肴而顯得很高興，說明那是一件珍品。
Given the rarity of such behaviour in football, the initial reaction would no doubt have been surprise.
因為足球界中此類事件少之又少，最初的反應毫無疑問是驚訝。
"Up until now dating has been a rarity in India, but culture is changing and our timing just happens to be right, " said Sachs.
Sachs說：“直到如今，約會在印度仍然罕見，但文化正在變化，我們也抓住了一個好時機。”
Such a timeline promises the kind of job security that's a rarity on Wall Street today.
這樣一個時間框架可以帶來如今華爾街罕見的工作穩定感。
When Richard Devine first started out in the early '90s, music-making software for the personal computer was a rarity.
當理查德迪瓦恩在90年代初首先開始使用時，個人電腦音樂制作軟件是一個罕見的事物。
It seems to be the mere rarity that attracts the average collector.
而收藏家的興趣似乎僅在于它是否罕見。
Madame Merle had had that note of rarity, but what quite other power it immediately gained when sounded by a man.
梅爾夫人雖然也有罕見的特色，但這個特色體現在男人身上的時候，就具有了完全不同的力量。
No one discovers a rarity by chance.
發現珍品決非偶然。
The artist pur sang is a rarity.
真正的藝術家很少。
It seems to be the mere rarity that attracts the average collector.
而收藏家的興趣似乎僅在于它是否罕見。
Goldman Sachs was fairly up front about it, a rarity in the industry.
高盛（GoldmanSachs）在這方面算是走在了前面，在行業里有些與眾不同。
He realized that artistic male nudes were a rarity from his travels, and set forth to carve a niche in this genre of photography.
他在旅途中發現男性人體藝術作品非常少見，并且決定敲開攝影界這一領域的大門。
There is always hope that in its labyrinth of musty, dark, disordered rooms a real rarity will be found.
在發霉、陰暗、雜亂無章、迷宮般的店堂里，總有希望找到一件稀世珍品。
Had he done so, he might well have completed the full four years in office, a rarity for an Israeli prime minister.
如果他這么做了，那么他很有可能完成四年的任期，歷任以色列總理極少能做到這點。
It's very difficult to come by both characteristics in a man, and a man with such high quality in both departments is a rarity.
在男人身上同時得到這兩點是非常困難的，在這兩方面都具備那么高的素質的男人是罕見的。
Her status as a female officer would make her a rarity at many companies, but not at Xerox.
身為一名女性領導，她的境況在很多公司都屬罕見，但在施樂就不是。
It was just another sudden unexplained rarity of the war.
這恰恰又是這次戰爭中出人意外的無法解釋的罕見現象。
As for the stock, there are second - hand travel books as well as new, for those of us on budgets or after some out-of-print rarity.
雖然是庫存，這里的二手旅行書籍跟新的一樣，對于預算有限和想要找到絕版書的我們來說，非常合適。
LAZY summer days are a rarity for America's firefighters, who must battle dozens of big blazes around the west.
閑適的夏天對于美國的消防隊員來說是罕有的，他們肯定戰斗在西部眾多的火場中。
He thinks coloured gems could be "superstars" if their rarity is marketed just as cleverly.
哈爾波圖先生認為，如果策劃的好，彩色寶石會因其稀有性被炒作成“超級明星”。
An emphasis on the extreme rarity of the abilities required by top leaders implied that only a tiny number could question their judgment.
強調高管需要極其罕見的能力，就意味著只有屈指可數的人能夠質疑高管的判斷。
Public behaviour still treats the internet like a village, in which new faces are welcome and anti-social behaviour a rarity.
公眾的表現仍使得互聯網看起來像是個村莊，人們歡迎任何到來的新面孔，反社會的行為并不常見。
Last among the classic aphrodisiacs are those foods that, owing to cost and rarity, connote wealth, luxury and sexual languor.
最后一類傳統催情食品，是那些價格不菲，而且稀罕的東西。
It was enough to make you marvel at the rarity of wrong calls by on-the-spot referees.
這足以讓你驚嘆現場裁判的判罰錯誤次數之少。
His government, elected in 2007, will serve out a full term, a rarity in a fractious and factious place.
從07年上任至今，他所在政府即將執政期滿，在這個煩躁的地方實屬罕見。
Rarity is not merely determined by the number of individuals in a species, it is also about how unusual that species is.
稀缺性不僅僅由某個物種所包含的個體數量決定，還和物種的數量有關。
The author of The Black Swan explains why the rarity and unpredictability of certain events does not make them unimportant.
《黑天鵝》作者將向大家解釋：罕見和難以預料的事件，并不意味著他們不重要。
Rarity: This is the only pair of identical singing-bird pistols known to exist in the world.
稀有：這是目前所知的世上僅存的一對一模一樣的鳥鳴裝置活動手槍。
Or the rarity of his wartime illnesses, limited to a mild bout of smallpox which killed his valet?
戰時他很少患疾病，僅限于輕度的天花，而這個疾病卻導致他的衛兵死亡？
