rarity
美 [ˈrerəti] 
英 [ˈreərəti]
- n.罕见；稀有；珍品；稀有物
- 网络稀少；诺瑞德；稀有性
词形变化
复数：rarities 同义词
英汉双解
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. 在商界位居高职的女性仍然十分罕见。 |
| His collection of plants contains many rarities. 他收藏的植物包括许多稀有品种。 |
2. | [u] 稀有；罕见the quality of being rare |
| The value of antiques will depend on their condition and rarity. 古董的价值依它们的保存状况和稀有程度而定。 |
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例句
But while widely known as indefatigable, Mr Cayne is something of a rarity in the world of Wall Street workaholics.
凯恩虽以不知疲倦著称，却是华尔街工作狂中的异数。
TMAdV's rarity in humans could make it a potentially powerful tool as a viral vehicle for delivering gene therapy, Chiu adds.
Chiu补充说，伶猴腺病毒（TMAdV）在人类身上罕见，这让它可能成为一个潜在的强大工具，在基因治疗中充当病毒载体。
Although something of a rarity, it may become more common as sunflower seeds are increasingly appearing in food.
虽说这是少见的现象，不过，由于食物中越来越多地用到了葵花子，这种过敏也许会越来越普遍。
Among the many wild changes observable on familiar things which made this wild ride unreal, not the least was the seeming rarity of sleep.
在这次荒唐的骑马旅行中他发现许多日常事物发生了近于虚幻的荒唐变化，睡眠很少似乎并不是其中最小的变化。
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.
所有这些因素使得格利泽581g（译注：原文为格利泽，应是格利泽581g之误）最有希望成为地球类行星并不稀有的明证。
As a result, finding such a large, complete specimen was something of a rarity, he said.
所以，发现如此巨大的完整的鱿鱼很少见。
For perspective, think back just a few decades when China was dubbed the "bicycle kingdom" with passenger cars a rarity.
至于其发展前景，回顾一下历史就知道了——就在几十年前，中国还被戏谑为“自行车王国”，轿车还是稀罕物。
It is something of a rarity. If this were a bird, the queues would be stretching round the car park.
它是一些罕见的事情，如果这是一只鸟，人龙会伸展至围绕停车场。
Because of its rarity, IBC is often misdiagnosed as mastitis or generalized dermatitis.
由于其稀有性，IBC被误诊为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？我没什么特别的，”他说，“我只是一个教书匠，不过说些实话，就被认为是稀有的了。”
"If all this stimulus has no effect on the economy, that would be a rarity indeed, " says Paulsen.
“这些刺激手段不太可能对经济一点都不奏效，”鲍尔森说道。
You know, when I grew up in India, telephones were a rarity.
你们知道，在我小时候电话可是一种稀有的东西。
That might seem ridiculous to ask of an institution like Goldman Sachs, whose third-quarter loss stands out for its rarity value.
这个问题对于像高盛这样在稀缺价值上损失四分之三的机构来说是很可笑的。
A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France then, than at any other time before or since.
在法国南部，八月炎热的日子里骄阳当空，在那之前或之后这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.
当时这屋子里的第三者曾经是他们的一种束缚，而她和她丈夫单独在一起的时刻能得到一种稀有的愉快。
The delight of the children at the sight of some dish on the table showed that it was a rarity.
孩子们看见桌上的菜肴而显得很高兴，说明那是一件珍品。
Given the rarity of such behaviour in football, the initial reaction would no doubt have been surprise.
因为足球界中此类事件少之又少，最初的反应毫无疑问是惊讶。
"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说：“直到如今，约会在印度仍然罕见，但文化正在变化，我们也抓住了一个好时机。”
Such a timeline promises the kind of job security that's a rarity on Wall Street today.
这样一个时间框架可以带来如今华尔街罕见的工作稳定感。
When Richard Devine first started out in the early '90s, music-making software for the personal computer was a rarity.
当理查德迪瓦恩在90年代初首先开始使用时，个人电脑音乐制作软件是一个罕见的事物。
It seems to be the mere rarity that attracts the average collector.
而收藏家的兴趣似乎仅在于它是否罕见。
Madame Merle had had that note of rarity, but what quite other power it immediately gained when sounded by a man.
梅尔夫人虽然也有罕见的特色，但这个特色体现在男人身上的时候，就具有了完全不同的力量。
No one discovers a rarity by chance.
发现珍品决非偶然。
The artist pur sang is a rarity.
真正的艺术家很少。
It seems to be the mere rarity that attracts the average collector.
而收藏家的兴趣似乎仅在于它是否罕见。
Goldman Sachs was fairly up front about it, a rarity in the industry.
高盛（GoldmanSachs）在这方面算是走在了前面，在行业里有些与众不同。
He realized that artistic male nudes were a rarity from his travels, and set forth to carve a niche in this genre of photography.
他在旅途中发现男性人体艺术作品非常少见，并且决定敲开摄影界这一领域的大门。
There is always hope that in its labyrinth of musty, dark, disordered rooms a real rarity will be found.
在发霉、阴暗、杂乱无章、迷宫般的店堂里，总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.
如果他这么做了，那么他很有可能完成四年的任期，历任以色列总理极少能做到这点。
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.
在男人身上同时得到这两点是非常困难的，在这两方面都具备那么高的素质的男人是罕见的。
Her status as a female officer would make her a rarity at many companies, but not at Xerox.
身为一名女性领导，她的境况在很多公司都属罕见，但在施乐就不是。
It was just another sudden unexplained rarity of the war.
这恰恰又是这次战争中出人意外的无法解释的罕见现象。
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.
虽然是库存，这里的二手旅行书籍跟新的一样，对于预算有限和想要找到绝版书的我们来说，非常合适。
LAZY summer days are a rarity for America's firefighters, who must battle dozens of big blazes around the west.
闲适的夏天对于美国的消防队员来说是罕有的，他们肯定战斗在西部众多的火场中。
He thinks coloured gems could be "superstars" if their rarity is marketed just as cleverly.
哈尔波图先生认为，如果策划的好，彩色宝石会因其稀有性被炒作成“超级明星”。
An emphasis on the extreme rarity of the abilities required by top leaders implied that only a tiny number could question their judgment.
强调高管需要极其罕见的能力，就意味着只有屈指可数的人能够质疑高管的判断。
Public behaviour still treats the internet like a village, in which new faces are welcome and anti-social behaviour a rarity.
公众的表现仍使得互联网看起来像是个村庄，人们欢迎任何到来的新面孔，反社会的行为并不常见。
Last among the classic aphrodisiacs are those foods that, owing to cost and rarity, connote wealth, luxury and sexual languor.
最后一类传统催情食品，是那些价格不菲，而且稀罕的东西。
It was enough to make you marvel at the rarity of wrong calls by on-the-spot referees.
这足以让你惊叹现场裁判的判罚错误次数之少。
His government, elected in 2007, will serve out a full term, a rarity in a fractious and factious place.
从07年上任至今，他所在政府即将执政期满，在这个烦躁的地方实属罕见。
Rarity is not merely determined by the number of individuals in a species, it is also about how unusual that species is.
稀缺性不仅仅由某个物种所包含的个体数量决定，还和物种的数量有关。
The author of The Black Swan explains why the rarity and unpredictability of certain events does not make them unimportant.
《黑天鹅》作者将向大家解释：罕见和难以预料的事件，并不意味着他们不重要。
Rarity: This is the only pair of identical singing-bird pistols known to exist in the world.
稀有：这是目前所知的世上仅存的一对一模一样的鸟鸣装置活动手枪。
Or the rarity of his wartime illnesses, limited to a mild bout of smallpox which killed his valet?
战时他很少患疾病，仅限于轻度的天花，而这个疾病却导致他的卫兵死亡？
