| 单词 | bare |
| 释义 | bare I. 1. a. < a stroke that left the bone bare > < a bare hillside > < trees standing gaunt and bare > < a bare scalp > b. (1) < expose a bare back to the sun > < walk in bare feet > (2) obsolete c. (1) < bare aluminum gutters > < a bare floor > (2) < fought and killed him with bare hands > (3) of cloth (4) of a sword < and bare was the Niblung sword — William Morris > (5) of a ship's mast < rode out the storm with bare poles > d. obsolete 2. < lays bare with admirable simplicity the essentials of the problem > < laid bare the innermost secrets of the society > 3. a. < tenant farmers who live in bare shacks — American Guide Series: Texas > < a bare room, dusty and cold > b. < a house bare of all comforts save the devotion of the parents > < deny the right to livelihood of individuals bare of all legal protection — Robert Lekachman > 4. a. < a bare living > < the bare dinner of potatoes — Lewis Mumford > : minimum < the bare necessities of life > : mere < the father drowned … when Nathan was a bare two years old — Mary S. Watts > < rage … at the bare idea that the tenant of a furnished house should interfere with the owner's timber — F.M.Ford > b. < state the bare truth > < the bare folk tale, a simple narration of some happening or action — R.A.Hall b. 1911 > < a bare outline of a novelette > c. < only a bare portion of the available gold was being secured — Irving Stone > 5. obsolete 6. bridge < a bare king > < hold the ace bare > Synonyms: < maidens whose bare feet make no sound — Lafcadio Hearn > < legs bare or swathed from the knee to the ankle — Edna S. V. Millay > naked usually indicates complete lack of clothing; it may suggest a primitive or natural condition, rare and complete beauty, pitiful destitution, or wanton and shameless exhibitionism < a boy and an old man — both islanders, the former nearly naked and the latter dressed in an old naval frock coat — Herman Melville > < a radiant spirit arose all beautiful in naked purity — P.B.Shelley > < hunt for food and be a naked man — S.T.Coleridge > < down with Reticence, down with Reverence — forward — naked — let them stare — Alfred Tennyson > Especial connotations are lacking for nude, a synonym more sophisticated and less common before the 20th century, except that it is frequently used in relation to artistic productions < standing before a picture of nude beauty — P.E.More > In reference to bodily matters bald also lacks especial connotation. In other contexts bare stresses a lack of some covering, furniture, addition, or amplification usually expected < the house seemed bare and cold, a bareness scarcely modified by the few old pieces of furniture — Mary Austin > < scorched and blackened by the long summer, the country was as bare as a conquered province after the march of an invader — Ellen Glasgow > < the bare statement that “art is useless” is so vague as to be really meaningless, if not inaccurate and misleading — Havelock Ellis > naked strongly suggests exposure or revelation < it is not asked that poetry should offer naked argument and skeleton plans — C.D.Lewis > < numberless naked, detached coral formations are seen, just emerging, as it were, from the ocean — Herman Melville > bald indicates absence of natural covering, particularly on the top of something < Texas, spanning a widely divergent region between the lush green coastal prairies and a semiarid trans-Pecos expanse of bald hills — American Guide Series: Texas > It may also imply severe curt plainness and lack of adornment < he invented no fancy phrases to decorate a bald fact — Agnes Repplier > < lend verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative — W.S.Gilbert > barren stresses lack of natural covering < the country was barren and rocks stuck up through the clay. There was no grass — Ernest Hemingway > Otherwise it suggests impoverishment or fruitlessness < my life is a barren and lonely one, and so full of work that I have not had much time for friendships — Bram Stoker > II. < bare his back to the sun > < bare her teeth in a smile > < bares the remote origins of bolshevism — S.T.Possony > < demanding that men bare their private opinion or else go to jail — Herbert Agar > Synonyms: see strip III. obsolete IV. archaic past of bear |
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