词汇精选：bare的用法和辨析

一、详细释义：

adj.

赤裸的，不穿衣服的

例句：

She turned her back to the wind and the flap of her dress flew up to reveal a bare white thigh.

她一扭腰，转身背着风，让风把她的旗袍下幅吹得高高地，露出一双赤裸裸的白腿。

例句：

She had bare arms and a bare neck.

她的胳臂和脖子都露在外面。

没有叶子的，寸草不生的，光秃秃的

例句：

What had once been a gentle hill covered with lush grass turned into a brown obscenity of bare earth and smoke.

以前曾是草木茂盛的小山丘，已经成为一片光秃秃的土地和烟雾，一片令人厌恶的土地了。

例句：

That's probably the most bare, bleak, barren and inhospitable island I've ever seen.

那可能是我见过的最荒凉的岛屿，荒无人烟，寸草不生。

无遮盖的，未加装饰的，空的

例句：

The wall lay any which way between the bare yard and the broken sidewalk.

那墙弯弯曲曲地立在空院与破烂的人行道之间。

例句：

The table was bare, the candles unlighted.

桌子上是空的，蜡烛也没点。

最基本的，最重要的

例句：

Newspaper reporters were given nothing but the bare facts by the Superintendent in charge of the investigation.

报社的记者们从负责这起调查的督察那里得到的只是一些最基本的情况。

例句：

These are the bare essentials you'll need to dress your baby during the first few months.

这些是你的宝宝在头几个月里要穿的基本衣物。

最少的，最低限度的，勉强的

例句：

The army would try to hold the western desert with a bare minimum of forces.

军队会用尽可能少的兵力扼守西部的沙漠。

例句：

Most Europeans will do the bare minimum.

大多数欧洲人连最低限度都做不到。

仅有的

例句：

Sales are growing for premium wines, but at a bare 2 percent a year.

高档酒的销量正在增长，但年增长率只有2％。

v.

使暴露，露出，揭开 [T]

例句：

Walsh bared his teeth in a grin.

沃尔什一笑露出了牙齿。

例句：

He bared his muscular, hairy chest for a women's magazine.

他为一本女性杂志秀出了他那肌肉发达、毛发浓密的性感胸部。

使赤裸，脱 [T]

例句：

Bare your head when the flag is raised.

升旗时要脱帽致敬。

例句：

Wordlessly I bared my back and he lashed me with a strap.

我二话没说脱掉上衣，他用皮带抽打我的背。

二、词义辨析：

bare,naked,bald,barren

这些形容词都含“裸露的”之意。 bare指缺少必要的遮盖物。用于人时，多指身体的部分裸露。naked指全身一丝不挂，暴露无遗。bald指头上无发，山坡无树无草，树顶无叶。barren着重缺少肥力或生活能力，无草无木，荒瘠不毛。

三、相关短语：

bare bones

n.梗概,本质,不加渲染的

四、参考例句：

She had bare arms and a bare neck.

她的胳臂和脖子都露在外面。

The child was bare to the waist.

那孩子打赤膊。

The hotel room was bare and uninviting.

这个旅馆房间光秃秃的,很不好看。

The room was bare and empty.

房间空荡荡的。

The top of the hill was bare.

小山顶上光秃秃的。

Most Europeans will do the bare minimum.

大多数欧洲人连最低限度都做不到。

The room was bare and empty.

房间空荡荡的。

The room is bare of furniture.

这间房里家具很少。

The mountaintops were bare of any vegetation.

那些山顶上光秃而无任何植物。

I remained alone in the bare carriage.

我独自坐在空车厢里。