| 单词 | rarefied |
| 释义 | rarefied (reərɪfaɪd ) 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] If you talk about the rarefied atmosphere 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. [disapproval] ...teachers from the rarefied atmosphere of grammar schools. ...the rarefied atmosphere of the property market in Belgravia, Chelsea and Mayfair. 2. adjective Rarefied air is air that does not contain much oxygen, for example in mountain areas. Both animals and people were gasping for breath in the rarefied air. ...living at very high altitudes where the atmosphere is rarefied. Collocations: rarefied air His rhythm was beat out into the rarefied air - breath, ice pick in, step, breath, ice pick in, step. A FEW SHORT NOTES ON TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES (2003) You breathe this rarefied air for a very short time. The Sun (2011) The focus on the tiny elite has made me breathless in rarefied air. Times, Sunday Times (2011) She seemed to exist in a rarefied air of lonely but enigmatic beauty. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Ordinarily only the fittest are allowed to survive in the rarefied air of the summit. Times, Sunday Times (2012) The contrast between this rarefied world and the hardship of her upbringing could not be more extreme. Times, Sunday Times (2016) In the rarefied world of ski property, the news doesn't get much bigger than this. Times, Sunday Times (2017) Bespoke bottling is also limited to a rarefied world. Times, Sunday Times (2014) There are two inflammatory issues that keep cropping up in the rarefied world of British ballet. Times, Sunday Times (2015) The price of this is a decline in business activity; something that does not impinge on the rarefied world of theoretical economics which central bankers live in. Times, Sunday Times (2007) |
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