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English-Galician CLUVI Dictionary, 2nd edition (revised version 2.2)

(Based on the CLUVI Corpus of the University of Vigo)



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rare


- adjective
- raro

EN There were strange, rare odors abroad --a tangle of the sea smell and of weeds and damp, new-plowed earth, mingled with the heavy perfume of a field of white blossoms somewhere near.
GL No exterior había descoñecidos e raros recendos; unha maraña de cheiro a mar, algas e humidade de terra recén arada, mesturada co penetrante perfume dun campo cheo de gromos brancos que había nos arredores.
- Fonte: ESP (677)
- estraño

EN Here and there I found traces of the little people in the shape of rare fossils broken to pieces or threaded in strings upon reeds.
GL Aquí e acolá atopei trazos da presencia da pequena xente: algúns fósiles estraños rotos en anacos ou dispostos en ringleiras sobre xuncos.
- Fonte: TEM (1407)
- escaso

EN It was one of those rare moments when none of my men was in the café.
GL Foi un deses escasos momentos nos que os meus homes non estaban dentro.
- Fonte: TER (2294)
- infrecuente

EN He commented on the fact that we were surrounded by people of all classes, of all ages, of all nationalities. That is a fact somewhat rare at this time of year. The Athens-Paris and the Bucharest-Paris coaches, for instance, are almost empty.
GL Comentou que estabamos rodeados por xentes de tódalas clases, de tódalas idades, de tódalas nacionalidades. É algo infrecuente nesta época do ano: o coche que vén de Atenas e o que vén de Bucarest, por exemplo, están case baldeiros.
- Fonte: ASA (4956)
- pouco frecuente

EN It was filled with friandises, with luscious and toothsome bits --the finest of fruits, pates, a rare bottle or two, delicious syrups, and bonbons in abundance.
GL Estaba chea de friandises, con bocados suculentos e saborosos; as mellores froitas, patés, unha ou dúas botellas pouco frecuentes, deliciosos xaropes e moreas de bombóns.
- Fonte: ESP (168)
- excepcional

EN As the train pulls out of the station it seems to lurch in front of the corner tower rising on the Tartar city's southeastern edge, a rare vestige of the old ramparts, as if hesitating for a last time.
GL Ó saír da estación, diante da torre angular, excepcional vestixio das murallas que se erguen no sueste da cidade tártara, advírtese nas oscilacións do tren unha última vacilación.
- Fonte: C22 (573)
- singular

EN Until very recently, speculation on the finest examples of Nok statuary was in full swing in the city, and well-informed collectors on a narrow downtown street examined rare pieces stolen from the Kinshasa Museum after the fall of the Mobutu regime.
GL A especulación sobre os mellores exemplares da estatuaria Nok prosperaba e, á volta dunha canella do centro da cidade, os coleccionistas asisados podían examinar pezas singulares, subtraídas do museo de Kinshasa trala caída do réxime de Mobutu.
- Fonte: C26 (505)