rarefied

英 [ˈreərɪfaɪd]

美 [ˈrerɪfaɪd]

adj.  高深精妙的; 曲高和寡的; 稀薄的; 含氧量低的

过去式：rarefied　

BNC.21373 / COCA.21700

牛津词典

adj.

• 高深精妙的；曲高和寡的
  understood or experienced by only a very small group of people who share a particular area of knowledge or activity
  1. the rarefied atmosphere of academic life
     阳春白雪的学术生活氛围
• 稀薄的；含氧量低的
  containing less oxygen than usual

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 过于高雅的;过于高贵的;脱离现实生活的
  If you talk about therarefiedatmosphere of a place or institution, you are expressing your disapproval of it, because it has a special social or academic status that makes it very different from ordinary life.
  1. ...the fear and loneliness that working class students can feel when they are plunged into the rarefied atmosphere of university...
     工人阶级出身的学生面对大学静雅高深的氛围时产生的恐惧和孤独
  2. It is important for the state's future administrators to get out of the rarefied air of the capital.
     对国家日后的统治者来说，摆脱首都过于清高的氛围是很重要的。
• ADJ-GRADED （空气）稀薄的，含氧量少的
  Rarefiedair is air that does not contain much oxygen, for example in mountain areas.
  1. Both animals and people were gasping for breath in the rarefied air.
     动物和人在稀薄的空气中都大口喘着气。
  2. ...living at very high altitudes where the atmosphere is rarefied.
     居住在空气稀薄的高海拔地区

双语例句

• Rare gasses; lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air.
  稀薄的气体；在稀薄的高山空气中人头昏眼花。
• Watch out Mary Poppins, the hurricane howling through the world's financial markets is starting to be felt in the rarefied world of the British nanny.
  小心了，玛丽•波宾斯阿姨！全球的金融飓风已开始殃及英国的保姆市场！
• Both animals and people were gasping for breath in the rarefied air.
  动物和人在稀薄的空气中都大口喘着气。
• Yet outside the rarefied world of thinkers, remarkably few deny the possibility of a supreme being; less than 10% of Americans.
  但是除了少数的思想家圈子之外，很少人拒绝上帝存在的可能性，在美国人里只有不到10%。
• Ah, to breathe deeply of that pure, rarefied mountain air.
  哦，深深的吸一口纯净的山谷空气。
• A variety of flow phenomena, such as rarefied gas flow, reverse jet flow and gas solid two phase flow etc.
  固体战术导弹在高空实现头体两级分离过程中，流场内存在稀薄气体流动、反向喷流及气固两相流动等多种流动现象。
• Midway up the slope, however, I staggered to a halt, gasping in the rarefied air, well before I reached the heights where the equations of Einstein and Dirac would have made sense.
  登到山坡的一半时，我摇摇晃晃的停下来，呼吸稀薄的空气，这时，距离我能够理解爱因斯坦或狄拉克的方程式的高度还相差很远。
• He moves in very rarefied circles; his friends are all lords.
  他活动于上流阶层，结交的尽是贵族。
• Rarefied experts in building inspection or engine repair might be able to visit locations without losing time to air travel.
  建筑物检验或引擎修复的顶尖专家，也许不必浪费时间搭飞机，就能造访许多不同的地点。
• The rarefied air of the andes.
  安第斯山脉的稀薄空气。