核心畫面

You can hold rare as a thing you almost never come across: you can look and look and it just isn't there most of the time. The picture under it is — only a few exist, or it only happens once in a long while, so finding one feels like a small piece of luck.

可以把 rare 想成一樣你幾乎碰不到的東西:你找了又找,大半時候它就是不在。核心畫面比較像「數量很少、難得遇上」—更多收起可以把 rare 想成一樣你幾乎碰不到的東西:你找了又找,大半時候它就是不在。核心畫面比較像「數量很少、難得遇上」——要嘛世上沒幾個,要嘛隔很久才發生一次,所以真的遇到了會有種小小的幸運感。

Three branches

難得一見、少有

這一家就是核心本身:東西少、或事情不常發生。

rare, uncommon · adjective · B1

Happening or seen only very seldom.

罕見的

肉只煎一下、還很生

這個『幾分熟』的 rare 跟『稀少』的關係其實很遠,硬要兜回核心會牽強;可以想成它另有一條路:一塊牛排只在火上待了一下下、裡面還紅紅生生的,下鍋的時間「少」。

rare (meat) · adjective · B1

(Of meat) cooked for only a short time, so it is still red inside.

(肉)幾分熟的

(舊式)很棒、了不起

這個『很棒』可以接回核心:難得碰到的東西往往品質出眾,於是『稀有』就被借去誇『出色』——好到不常見,所以叫人驚艷。

great, excellent (old-fashioned) · adjective · B1

Very good or surprising — an old-fashioned British way of saying something was great.

(舊式)很棒的

原始詞典資料10 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

rareadj詞源 1/ɹɛə/

  • 1

    Very uncommon; scarce.

    • Black pearls are very rare and therefore very valuable.
    • Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better.
  • 2

    medicinepathologysciencesSmall in number (but not unusual); infrequent; sparse.

    • The anterior and posterior skin of the upper chest and shoulders demonstrated irregularly jagged borders with areas of soot and charring focally. The soft and bony tissues underlying the borders were markedly damaged by presumed explosive injuries. There were rare abrasions and contusions of the chest and upper extremities. The lower extremities demonstrated rare abrasions and contusions as well as severe lacerations of the anteromedial knees with underlying fractures of the distal aspects of the femora (Image 4).
    • Moreover, the SF [Superficial fascia] splits to surround vessels and nerves, ensuring their patency, and forms the so-called retinacula cutis, which has the function of connecting the SF to the skin (retinacula cutis superficialis, or skin ligaments) and to the deep fascia (retinacula cutis profundis), to provide a dynamic and flexible anchor of the skin to underlying tissues [16,20]. The deep septa are rare, thin, and oblique and have an apparent lesser organization, allowing great autonomy between superficial and deep fascia.
  • 3

    Thin; of low density.

  • 4

    slangGood; enjoyable.

    • Sees her reflection in a butcher shop. She finds it all quite rare That her meat's all vanity fair.
  • 5

    slangCool; excellent.

    • I whistled for a cab and when it came near / The license plate said ‘fresh’ and it had dice in the mirror. / If anything I could say that this cab was rare.

rarenoun詞源 1/ɹɛə/

  • 1

    gamesgamingA scarce or uncommon item.

    • Most of the time, you do this by trading low-valued rares for more valuable ones or trading uncommons for rares. Other times it's trading cards that are in print for ones that are out of print, or low-value rares for good uncommons.

rareadj詞源 2/ɹɛə/

  • 1

    cookingfoodlifestyleParticularly of meat, especially beefsteak: cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red.

    • Then Curds and Cream, the Flow'r of Country Fare, / And new-laid Eggs, which Baucis’ buſie Care / Turn’d by a gentle Fire, and roaſted rare.

rareverb詞源 3/ɹɛə/

  • 1

    To rear, rise up, start backwards.

    • Frank pretended to rare back as if bedazzled, shielding his eyes with a forearm.
  • 2

    To rear, bring up, raise.

    • Here I have to say that I was walking along dark-hearted, my nose out of joint about Audie's notice of her, for just as quickly as my feelings kindled, my old envy rared.

rareadj詞源 4/ɹɛə/

  • 1

    obsoleteEarly.

    • The men, that sway / In work of those tools that so fit our state, / Are rude mechanicals, that rare and late / Work in the market-place;

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。