水正成为日益珍贵的资源。Water is becoming an increasingly precious resource.教堂有几件珍贵的艺术品。The church has several valuable works of art.大火吞噬了我的一些最珍贵的物品。I lost some of my most prized possessions in the fire....

“珍贵的”的英语可以翻译为：infrequent，precious，rare，valuable，costful ...