Since they rarely carried a meal, the few metal lunch buckets on the market were mainly for tradesmen and factory workers.
由于他们很少自己带食物，所以市面上少数的金属午餐桶主要面向商人和工厂工人。
Bound in an alliance of mutual benefit, clownfish spend their entire lives with their host anemones, rarely straying more than a few yards from them.
在互利共生的约束中，小丑鱼一生与宿主海葵生活在一起，很少游出超过它们几米的地方。
Such books, which only rarely end up in permanent collections, either private or public, will probably only be available as e-books within a few years.
这样的书很少被私人或公共机构永久收藏，可能只会在几年内以电子书的形式出现。
While financial crises may cause serious hardship and reduce growth over the short - to medium-term, they rarely last more than a few years.
虽然金融危机可能会在短期到中期造成严重困难和减缓经济增长，但其持续时间很少超过两三年。
You can use it in a few other unusual situations, but they come up rarely, and there are other ways to handle those situations.
此外，分号还有一些很少看到的特殊用法，可是还有其他法办法来处理这些情况。
Sadly for the telecoms firms, bottom-fishing for distressed assets rarely worked, and investors vetoed empire-building deals involving mature assets that yielded few cost synergies.
可悲的电信公司，对那些贬值的资产抄底很少奏效，而投资者否决涉及到成熟资产的扩张交易，它们几乎不产生协同成本。
My route to work takes me past the Japanese embassy. Rarely have I seen so many police deployed around it as in the past few days.
我上班会途经日本大使馆，却从未见过像过去几天那样有如此多的警察驻守其外。
A bloom may last several weeks, but the life span of any individual phytoplankton is rarely more than a few days.
水华可能会持续数周，但任何单个浮游植物的寿命很少会超过数天。
He had few struggles with Congress, because he rarely asked Congress to do anything.
他与国会之间没有什么冲突，因为他很少要求国会做什么。
Adding a constructor or two for each exception class rarely takes more than a few minutes per exception.
对于一个异常，为每个异常类添加一个或两个构造器，所花费时间很少不超过几分钟。
There is rivalry over certain fishing waters and sporting prowess but it rarely amounts to more than a few heated exchanges.
虽然在某些捕鱼水域和体育实力上有竞争，但很少达到超过几次激烈争吵的程度。
The finding may explain why the few shark attacks that do happen on people are rarely fatal-until it's pretty big, the great white's reputation is worse than its bite.
这一发现或许可以解释为何一些人的确受到鲨鱼攻击却极少致命——只要大白鲨的体型还不够大，它咬下去的那一口就没有它的名声大。
Among families in the Pew survey with kids under 18, 50% say the family dinner is a daily ritual; 34% say they eat together a few times a week. About 14% say they rarely or never eat together.
在皮尤调查的有18岁以下孩子的家庭中，50%说家庭聚餐是每天的惯例，另有34%说他们一周几次在一起吃，大约14%说他们很少或从不一起吃。
Those few receiving treatment do so with considerable delays of an average of several years and rarely with the appropriate, state-of-the-art therapies.
那些很少接受治疗的患者通常会将病情拖延上好几年，而且也极度缺乏恰当、先进的治疗方法。
The few environmental groups that do exist in Dubai rarely stray from a brief that seems largely limited to educating school-children about the importance of recycling.
少数环保组织零散地分布在迪拜，其活动很大程度仅限于教育学校的孩子们关于循环利用的重要性。
We usually think of evolution as something that happens over eons, in remote places where people rarely venture. Not something that happens around the backyard birdfeeder in just a few decades.
在我们的通常印象中，物种进化需要经历长久的时间，且发生在人迹罕至的地方，似乎跟在自家后院喂了几十年野鸟八这种事竿子打不着。
The thing is, having taken a few of those myself, I find they are rarely satisfactory in either relaxation or professional terms.
问题是，由于我自己占用了其中一部分，结果发现无论在放松方面、还是在工作方面，都很少让人满意。
We rarely get a few minutes to actually think during our days, and I have found this time in the morning invaluable to my mental well-being.
在工作日，我们确实很少有时间去思考，那么，早上醒后的这段时间对我的精神健康是弥足宝贵的。
Even before the conflicts of the past 23 years, girls education was rarely promoted, except in a few urban cities.
即使是在过去23年的战乱之前，除了个别城市之外，很少提倡女童教育。
Real imagination and the ability to translate it into art come rarely, and even the best artists may only be truly good for a few years.
真正的想象力和将想象力转化为艺术的能力都十分稀有罕见，即使是最好的艺术家可能在短短几年这一小段时间里才是真正优秀的。
Rarely in the field of human endeavour has so little been known by so few about something so important.
在人类活动中，对于一件极其重要的事情，却仅有极少人知道极少一点情况，这实属罕见。
These efforts stimulate highly contentious debates. Serious evaluations, however, have been few and rarely rigorous.
虽然人们对这些做法争议不休，但是并没有多少人进行认真、严密的评估。
Pundits love to make these crazy claims because they're easily forgotten and rarely does anyone call them out for being wrong after a few years have passed.
权威人士喜欢说那些疯话，因为人们过阵子就忘了，而且很少有人几年过后还翻旧账说他们错了。
Searchers rarely ever convert on the first click and thus, SEO campaigns that merely target a few popular keywords and call the task finished may be fooling themselves.
搜索用户很少通过第一次搜索就能到达你的网站。因此，SEO如果说 可以通过一次优化就能让用户搜索某些流行关键字（词）到达你的网站，那可能是在骗自己。
I know I've said that a few times in my life so far and let me just tell you it rarely, if ever, works out.
我说过迄今为止在我的生活中确实有几次是这样的，但这种情况少之又少。
A transmission line connecting Peru and Ecuador was built a few years ago, but has rarely been used because the two countries have been unable to agree on a price for electricity.
连接秘鲁和厄瓜多的传输线已兴建多年，但却很少利用，因为两国无法就电价达成协议。
A transmission line connecting Peru and Ecuador was built a few years ago, but has rarely been used because the two countries have been unable to agree on a price for electricity.
连接秘鲁和厄瓜多的传输线已兴建多年，但却很少利用，因为两国无法就电价达成协议。
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