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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.
乔治•奥斯本的血液里一定含有制造业的成分，尽管稀薄，他的父亲就经营着一家专供富人的墙纸公司。
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.
没有某种深邃的思想一成不变地为之输入力量，所有这些在荒谬的稀薄空气中维持的生命都无法继续。
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.
迄今为止，彭罗斯的宇宙学观点多多少少描述了宇宙的一般标准形式，可是在这一点上，他引入了大量的他自己的构成理论，就是当宇宙变得很古老和稀薄时，存在于其中的粒子就会失去它自身的重量。

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.
这束天国的激光好像被设计成,去把处女纯净肉体的原子结构,变的纯化，纯粹和飘渺，那就是灵魂。
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In the prosaic world of real estate marketing Mark Segal and Jeffrey Jones have found a rarefied perch.
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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.