来自 rarefy,使高雅。比喻用法。

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. the rarefied atmosphere of academic life

阳春白雪的学术生活氛围

3. 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。

4. 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.

5. Getting a book published isn't the rarefied literary feat it once was.

出版一本书已经不像从前那样是什么了不起的大事了.