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单词 rare and
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rare and ——
d. Chiefly colloquial. Used as an intensifier modifying adjectives or nouns. Also with a predicative adjective in rare and ——.When modifying an adjective, virtually equivalent to an intensifying adverb: ‘truly’, ‘mighty’.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > very great or extreme > specifically of something good or admirable
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1619 P. Hannay Happy Husband sig. B.8v To you..Send I this Character, where ech may share Her equall portion in my rare-good wife.
a1627 W. Fowler tr. Petrarch Triumphs in Wks. (1914) I. 65 The passage owt and going furthe wes high and rair vnthik.
1701 W. Hicks Wits Acad. (ed. 8) 33 Will. Bring us up a Bottle of the best Canary in the Cellar; be sure let it be good... Drawer. I'll warrant you rare good, sir.
1800 J. T. Allingham 'Tis All Farce ii. iii. 30 You are a fine fellow, you keep a rare good larder—I was devilish hungry.
1833 H. Martineau Loom & Lugger ii. vi. 121 They put me in a rare passion.
1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. ix. 163 We got a good supper, and grew rare and sleepy.
1879 R. L. Stevenson Trav. with Donkey 61 I was rare and hungry.
1942 S. O'Casey Pictures in Hallway 65 He pulled a rare big bunch of them.
1977 J. Johnston Shadows on our Skin 67 There's a rare difference between sitting round and listening to a bunch of old men telling their hero stories and what is happening now.
1996 L. Gramling Ghosts of Green Swamp 99 ‘I reckon I'll stick with what I got,’ I said. ‘Which is a rare fine animal.’
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