The rarefied air scarcely gave play to the action of my lungs.
稀薄的空气几乎无法发挥我肺部的作用。
消失的地平线
Rarefied air had different effects on people; Conway, for instance, derived from it a combination of mental clarity and physical apathy that was not unpleasant.
稀薄的空气对人有不同的影响; 例如,康威从中得出了一种并不令人不快的头脑清晰和身体冷漠的结合。
演员对谈(双语精选)
But I've said this to you before, like in my mind, I hold you in like Meryl Streep in this like air, like air, like rarefied air of like prestige actors.
Even Amaranta, lying in a wicker basket, observed with curiosity the absorbing work of her father and her brother in the small room where the air was rarefied by mercury vapors.
就连躺在柳条篮子里的阿玛兰塔也好奇地观察着父亲和哥哥在空气被水银蒸气稀释的小房间里专心致志地工作。
米德尔马契(二)
The country gentry of old time lived in a rarefied social air: dotted apart on their stations up the mountain they looked down with imperfect discrimination on the belts of thicker life below.
To keep Bimala's heart in the rarefied air of idealism, I cut short all further discussion over the five thousand rupees. I reverted to the demon-destroying goddess and her worship. When was the ceremony to be held and where?
Rarefaction is the reduction of an item's density, the opposite of compression.
Like compression, which can travel in waves (sound waves, for instance), rarefaction waves also exist in nature. A common rarefaction wave is the area of low relative pressure following a shock wave (see picture).