rarely

副词 rarely:

1. not often
   同义词：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.
   该国对汽车工业严加保护，外国汽车甚为罕见。
3. The leader rarely shows herself in public.
   这位领导她很少在公众场合露面。
4. Why is it that he rarely mentions his childhood?
   他为什么很少提到他的儿童时代呢？
5. Rarely did he fail to keep his promise.
   他真的很难得失信。
6. Only rarely does he let his own views become public.
   他只是偶尔一次公开自己的观点。
7. I rarely meet him.
   我很少见到他。

rare.ly

adv.（副词）
Not often; infrequently:
罕有的，少见的：不经常地；稀少地：
例句：
.The truth is rarely pure and never simple.(Oscar Wilde)
.真理很少是纯粹的，更不会是简单的.(奥斯卡·怀尔德)

In an unusual degree; exceptionally.
例外地，特别地：以不寻常的程度地；特殊地
With uncommon excellence.
珍奇地，绝佳地：杰出地，具有超凡优点地

Strictly speaking,the use ofever after rarely and seldom is redundant;
严格地说，在rarely 和 seldom 后面再加上 ever 是一种重复：
例句：
She rarely ever watches television adds nothing to
她从来也不看电视与

例句：
She rarely watches television.
她从来不看电视并无任何区别。

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:
根据以前做的调查，大多数用法专题小组认为这种结构不可接受，尤其在正式文章中。但ever 用在 rarely 之后表示强调已有几百年的历史， 而且这种结构在非正式场合是常用的。相反，rarely （或 seldom ) if ever 和 rarely （或 seldom ) or never 这样的结构却是完全能接受的：
例句：
She rarely if ever watches television.
她极少看电视。

例句：
She rarely or never watches television. See Usage Note at hardly ,redundancy
她极少看电视 参见 hardly,redundancy