副詞 rarely:

1. not often
   同義詞：seldom

1. I rarely have short drinks.
   我很少喝烈性酒。
2. The country's car industry is so strongly protected that foreign cars are rarely seen there.
   該國對(duì)汽車工業(yè)嚴(yán)加保護(hù)，外國汽車甚為罕見。
3. The leader rarely shows herself in public.
   這位領(lǐng)導(dǎo)她很少在公眾場合露面。
4. Why is it that he rarely mentions his childhood?
   他為什么很少提到他的兒童時(shí)代呢？
5. Rarely did he fail to keep his promise.
   他真的很難得失信。
6. Only rarely does he let his own views become public.
   他只是偶爾一次公開自己的觀點(diǎn)。
7. I rarely meet him.
   我很少見到他。

rare.ly

adv.（副詞）
Not often; infrequently:
罕有的，少見的：不經(jīng)常地；稀少地：
例句：
.The truth is rarely pure and never simple.(Oscar Wilde)
.真理很少是純粹的，更不會(huì)是簡單的.(奧斯卡·懷爾德)

In an unusual degree; exceptionally.
例外地，特別地：以不尋常的程度地；特殊地
With uncommon excellence.
珍奇地，絕佳地：杰出地，具有超凡優(yōu)點(diǎn)地

Strictly speaking,the use ofever after rarely and seldom is redundant;
嚴(yán)格地說，在rarely 和 seldom 后面再加上 ever 是一種重復(fù)：
例句：
She rarely ever watches television adds nothing to
她從來也不看電視與

例句：
She rarely watches television.
她從來不看電視并無任何區(qū)別。

In an earlier surveya large majority of the Usage Panel found this construction unacceptable in formal writing.Butever has been used as an intensive with rarely for several hundred years, and the construction is common in informal contexts.By contrast, the constructionsrarely (or seldom ) if ever and rarely (or seldom ) or never are unexceptionable:
根據(jù)以前做的調(diào)查，大多數(shù)用法專題小組認(rèn)為這種結(jié)構(gòu)不可接受，尤其在正式文章中。但ever 用在 rarely 之后表示強(qiáng)調(diào)已有幾百年的歷史， 而且這種結(jié)構(gòu)在非正式場合是常用的。相反，rarely （或 seldom ) if ever 和 rarely （或 seldom ) or never 這樣的結(jié)構(gòu)卻是完全能接受的：
例句：
She rarely if ever watches television.
她極少看電視。

例句：
She rarely or never watches television. See Usage Note at hardly ,redundancy
她極少看電視 參見 hardly,redundancy