单词 | bald |
释义 | bald I. 1. a. < his big head was bald except for a wisp or two of brown hair — G.K.Chesterton > < comb the hair from the sides of the head across the top to disguise the fact that he is bald > < looking as bald and hairless in a bathing suit as a plucked chicken > < a bearded or bald face > b. < the trees were brown and bald as in winter — George Borrow > < bald, featureless, fire-blackened mountains — John Muir > < the banks rise suddenly, sometimes covered with timber and sometimes bald — Anthony Trollope > < the bald seat of his trousers > c. of wheat d. 2. archaic 3. a. < offered not a shred of evidence — nothing but bald assertion — C.H.Grandgent > < a bald statement of the facts > < only the bald outlines of his legal career — George Bellairs > < the more poetic the theme, the balder, or at least the briefer, its expression — W.C.Brownell > b. < bald egotism — J.R.Lowell > < a bald lie > < the bald, inaccurate … realism of the present theater — J.P.Marquand > < the present outcome is a bald political compromise — New Republic > 4. of a horse Synonyms: see bare II. chiefly Midland < the grass-covered balds of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina — Fortune > III. < was starting to bald noticeably > < a young man as diplomats go, still under fifty, balding rapidly — J.P.O'Donnell > |
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