| 单词 | bald |
| 释义 | bald (bɔːld ) Word forms: balder , baldest 1. adjective B1 Someone who is bald has little or no hair on the top of their head. The man's bald head was beaded with sweat. She is going bald. Synonyms: hairless, smooth, bare, shorn baldness uncountable noun He wears a cap to cover a spot of baldness. Synonyms: plainness, simplicity, austerity, severity Synonyms: barrenness, nakedness, bleakness, starkness Synonyms: hairlessness, alopecia [pathology], baldheadedness, baldpatedness 2. adjective If a tyre is bald, its surface has worn down and it is no longer safe to use. 3. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] A bald statement is in plain language and contains no extra explanation or information. The announcement came in a bald statement from the official news agency. The bald truth is he's just not happy. Synonyms: plain, direct, simple, straight baldly adverb [ADVERB with verb] 'The leaders are outdated,' he stated baldly. 'They don't relate to young people.' Collocations: bald head He shrugs and bobs his bald head this way and that. Times, Sunday Times (2008) He was a small, round man with an entirely bald head which distractingly mirrored the overhead light. THE GOSPEL MAKERS (2002) I can still see the way his bald head caught the light from the gas lamp. PROSPECT HILL (2003) Her husband's blue net gimme cap concealed what was probably a bald head. KISS AN ANGEL (1996) Roof down, wind in the hair — or sun shining off a bald pate — a ribbon of tarmac unfurling ahead ... Times, Sunday Times Court guards helped him remove a baseball cap, revealing a bald pate said to have been the result of chemotherapy. Times, Sunday Times Smart yet calm, standing mostly unemotionally in the technical area - arms crossed and bald pate gleaming in the floodlights - as the home fans and his backroom staff went berserk. Times, Sunday Times With his bald pate and round glasses, he was a picture of wizened rectitude amid what he portrayed as the unfortunate emergence of less wholesome behaviour. Times, Sunday Times His bald pate glistened in the winter sun that poured through the bay window and on the coils of silver-white hair falling over his hunched shoulders. Times, Sunday Times Behind that bald statement lies plenty of excitement. Times, Sunday Times It did not sound like a threat so much as a bald statement of fact. Times, Sunday Times A bald statement of fact. ST The listed private equity fund released a bald statement saying that it was considering 'a range of financing options including the potential issue of new equity', and little more. Times, Sunday Times He disarmed potential sponsors of the school by eschewing flattery and opening negotiations with the bald statement that what he was after was their cash. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But if you go completely bald nothing can be done. Times, Sunday Times He was delighted — without it, he faced the daunting decision either to go completely bald or to resort to the dreaded comb-over. Times, Sunday Times I was still completely bald when we met and it didn't bother him at all. The Sun I was completely bald, with no eyelashes and my skin was grey. Times, Sunday Times By the grand age of 12 he was completely bald, having pulled out all his turquoise feathers through boredom. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 光秃的 Japanese: 頭のはげた |
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