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bare bones

赤裸裸的骨头,赤裸裸的,赤手空拳,赤子之心

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n.名词(复数) plural noun
  1. 1
    • : the irreducible minimum; the most essential components: Reduce this report to its bare bones. There is nothing left of the town but the bare bones—a couple of stores, a church, and a few houses.

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  • This year, a bare-bones welfare program will continue into the New Year without being updated.

  • Instead of being strong and resilient, bones become weak and brittle.

  • My surgeon told me my bones were so soft he could barely install the screws.

  • But even if the great conqueror lies elsewhere, the Kasta bones might well be those of his wife.

  • “Bare [sic] with me on vlogmas,” she told her fans in a Tweet.

  • Eggs and nestlings were found lying on the bare soil at the inner ends of the burrows; no nesting material was found.

  • Sometimes the stems are quite bare; on other occasions they are partly branched; in any case the branches are short.

  • She thrust a bare, white arm from the curtain which shielded her open door, and received the cup from his hands.

  • From Canada on the north, to Texas on the south, the hot winds had laid the land seemingly bare.

  • Her little neck and arms were bare, and her hair, artificially crimped, stood out like fluffy black plumes over her head.