rarefied

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GEORGE OSBORNE has manufacturing, albeit of a rarefied sort, in his blood: his father’s wallpaper company furnishes the homes of the well-to-do.
喬治?奧斯本的血液里一定含有制造業(yè)的成分，盡管稀薄，他的父親就經(jīng)營著一家專供富人的墻紙公司。
All those lives maintained in the rarefied air of the absurd could not persevere without some profound and constant thought to infuse its strength into them.
沒有某種深邃的思想一成不變地為之輸入力量，所有這些在荒謬的稀薄空氣中維持的生命都無法繼續(xù)。
At this point, though, he introduces quite a large kludge of his own. This is the idea that when the universe becomes very old and rarefied, the particles within it lose their mass.
迄今為止，彭羅斯的宇宙學觀點多多少少描述了宇宙的一般標準形式，可是在這一點上，他引入了大量的他自己的構成理論，就是當宇宙變得很古老和稀薄時，存在于其中的粒子就會失去它自身的重量。

It's as if this celestial laser beam were designed so as to actually shift the atomic structure of the pure corporeal frame of the virgin's body until that body is so rarefied, so pure and ethereal, that it's nothing but soul.
這束天國的激光好像被設計成,去把處女純凈肉體的原子結構,變的純化，純粹和飄渺，那就是靈魂。
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In the prosaic world of real estate marketing Mark Segal and Jeffrey Jones have found a rarefied perch.
FORBES: Eye in the Sky
Of course, you'll have to pay to enter the rarefied world of institutional firepower.
FORBES: Move over, mutual funds
The Internet is a rarefied luxury, like a double Corona Havana, or a 1945 Chteau Lafite.
FORBES: I'll stick with growth stocks

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.
Rarefied air is air that does not contain much oxygen, for example in mountain areas.