| 单词 | bare bone |
| 释义 | bare bone (once / 38626 pages) n Something that is bare bone has nothing but the essential, basic elements. A bare bone speech is short, simple, and direct. When something is bare bone — or bare bones — it doesn't have a lot of frills or bells and whistles. Like a skeleton, which is literally a bunch of bare bones, anything described as bare bone has been stripped down to the basics. A bare bone staff at a hospital will have just enough people to keep the hospital running. A bare bone bus schedule will have very few stops. Bare bone things have been whittled down to the essentials. WORD FAMILYbare bone: bare bones USAGE EXAMPLESI’ve had to go through it so many times and cut out so much that I feel I’m left now with the bare bones. Salon(Nov 02, 2016) "To think much simpler and start from the bottom, or the bare bone, and then rather add to that, instead of starting very big." Reuters(Oct 16, 2016) Case management for families, as one provider declared to me, “is bare bones.” Washington Post(Oct 07, 2016) n bone stripped of flesh Hyper bone, os rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates |
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