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

• Both descriptions reflect a few of the ways parenting ( at least in this rarefied socioeconomic milieu) has evolved since the 1980s into a competitive and consumerist sport.
  她们的描述都反映出，自20世纪80年代以来，养育子女的某些方式（至少在这个特定的社会经济环境中）已演变成竞争性的消费主义活动。
• 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。
• In the rarefied air of structured finance, coming up with a rating is fraught with challenges.
  在结构融资的艰难世界中，提出一个评级非常具有挑战性。
• He became the dean of the rarefied market for Chinese art in New York and was an accomplished artist in his own right.
  纽约的中国艺术市场当时规模较小，而他成为了这个市场的领军者，而他本人也是一位颇有建树的艺术家。
• But now we see that the subsequent complexity, rarefied skills and tools, and additional constraints ended up stamping out a lot of SOA consumption at the edge
  但现在我们可以看到随之而来的复杂性，欠缺的技术与工具，以及额外的约束，最终将许多对SOA的消化扑灭在了边缘
• 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！
• The rarefied air of the andes.
  安第斯山脉的稀薄空气。
• Study and Implementation of Interactive Parallelization System for Rarefied Gas Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Method
  稀薄气体直接仿真蒙特卡洛方法交互式并行化系统研究与实现
• According to the calculated results, discussions and analyses are then presented to reveal the effects of rarefied region and rarefied effect on the working performances of the magnetic head.
  根据计算结果对其所处的稀薄区域和稀薄效应对磁头飞行性能的影响进行了分析和讨论。
• 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。