rarely

美 ['rerli] 英 ['reə(r)li]

• adv.很少；罕有；不常
• 网络难得；很少地；罕见

rarely happen

adv.

often

adv.

seldom,hardly ever,infrequently,not often,once in a blue moon

用法解析

1.

罕有；很少；不常

not very often

She is rarely seen in public nowadays.

如今在公共场所很少能见到她。

We rarely agree on what to do.

我们很少在要做的事情上看法一致。

a rarely-performed play

一部很少上演的戏剧

Rarely has a debate attracted so much media attention.

很少有辩论吸引这么多媒体关注。

1.

极,极少有地,极精彩地;难得,很少

2.

很少,很少地,不大,不苟,难,难得

3.

很少;罕有;难得

4.

大相径庭

1.

极,极少有地,极精彩地;难得,很少

2.

很少,很少地,不大,不苟,难,难得

3.

很少;罕有;难得

4.

大相径庭

1.

almost never or not very often

2.

exceptionally well

语法用例

例句1：

When her husband was elected, she agreed to live there. But she rarely saw anyone. One of her close friends took her place at public events.

当她丈夫当选总统后，她同意到华盛顿去，但她很少见任何人，她的一位最亲密的朋友代替她出席公务活动。

例句2：

He lavished money and effort on education and health, rarely pausing long enough to see if the last lot had worked.

他（布莱尔）浪费大笔金钱在教育和医疗服务上，却很少暂停下来，用足够的时间想想这最后一张牌是否起效。

例句3：

But she has rarely referred to the political drama sparked by his relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

而希拉里则很少提起克林顿与白宫女实习生莫尼卡•莱温斯基的那段“性丑闻”。

例句4：

Some only look at the surface presentation of the site and rarely delve deep within a site's depths to see all the pages and posts.

有的人只看看站点的表面布局，很少深入地看看网点所有的文章和网页。

例句5：

The fact that "British" troops were rarely mentioned in any reports of the fighting gave color to the enemy's taunts.

在任何关于战事的报道中，很少提到“英国”军队，这一事实使敌人的嘲弄更加动听。

例句6：

Assuming that others see what you see, feel what you feel, and think what you think, since that's rarely the case.

假设别人见你所见、感你所感、想你所想，因为事实很少会这样。

例句7：

The ball was rarely passed to me, but I learned a bunch of new techniques and I learned to love basketball much more.

球很少传给我，但是我还是学会了一些新技术，我也越来越喜欢打篮球了。

例句8：

Dr. Smith, a native of Maine who has traveled outside New England only rarely, conceded he did not know much about China.

史密斯博士，这个在缅因州土生土长的人，环游过新英格兰之外的世界。但是他也难得地极不情愿地肯承认，自己对中国所知甚少。

例句9：

Excepting pocket money, cash of any kind is now rarely used; money as a tangible commodity has largely been replaced by credit.

除了零用钱，任何形式的现金现在都用的很少，钱作为一种有形的商品已经很大程度上被信用卡代替了。

例句10：

And after 1872 she rarely left her house and yard. In the last years of her life she returned to a smaller circle of family and friends.

1872年后，她就很少离开她的家和院子了。在她生命中的最后几年中，她的生活圈子仅仅局限在家人和朋友。