bone
n. 骨(頭)
v. 剔除(肉或魚)的骨頭
adj. 骨制的
Your bones are the hard parts inside your body which together form your skeleton.
Many passengers suffered broken bones...
許多乘客骨折。
Stephen fractured a thigh bone...
斯蒂芬斷了一根股骨。
If you bone a piece of meat or fish, you remove the bones from it before cooking it.
Make sure that you do not pierce the skin when boning the chicken thighs...
剔雞腿骨時切勿戳破外面的皮。
The boned fish is so easy to serve.
剔了刺的魚很容易烹製。
A bone tool or ornament is made of bone.
...a small, expensive pocketknife with a bone handle.
昂貴的骨柄小折刀
The bare bones of something are its most basic parts or details.
There are not even the bare bones of a garden here — I've got nothing.
這兒連個花園的影子都沒有——我什麼也沒看到。
If something is too close to the bone, it makes you feel uncomfortable because it is very close to the truth or to the real nature of something.
If you say that you feel or know something in your bones, you are indicating that you are certain about it, although you cannot explain why.
I've got a feeling in my bones that things are not quite right.
直覺告訴我情況不太對頭。
If you make no bones about something, you talk openly about it, rather than trying to keep it a secret.
Some of them make no bones about their political views.
他們中的一些人坦率地表達了自己的政治觀點。
If you make no bones about doing something that is unpleasant or difficult or that might upset someone else, you do it without hesitating.
Stafford-Clark made no bones about reapplying for the job when Daldry was standing for it.
當戴德利對他表示支援時,斯塔福德-克拉克毫不遲疑地再次申請了這份工作。
You can say someone is just skin and bone when you do not approve of the fact that they are very thin.
He was nothing but skin and bones.
他瘦得只剩皮包骨頭了。
If something such as costs are cut to the bone, they are reduced to the minimum possible.
It has survived by cutting its costs to the bone...
它透過最大限度地降低運營成本生存了下來。
Profit margins have been slashed to the bone in an attempt to keep turnover moving.
為了維持資金週轉,利潤率已被降為最低。
You use to the bone to indicate that you are very deeply affected by something. For example, if you feel chilled to the bone, your whole body feels extremely cold, often because you have had a shock.
What I saw chilled me to the bone.
我看到的景象令我不寒而慄。
1. rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
2. the porous calcified substance from which bones are made
3. a shade of white the color of bleached bones
1. study intensively, as before an exam;
2. remove the bones from;
1. consisting of or made up of bone;
close to (或 near) the bone
(言語)傷人的,令人不舒服的
cut (或 pare) something to the bone
使最小化
have a bone to pick with someone
(非正式)同…有爭端要解決,對…有理由懷恨
in one's bones
深深地(或本能地)感到,理解,相信,知道
make no bones about
對…毫不猶豫,對…直言不諱
not have a —— bone in one's body
沒有一點(某種特性)
off the bone
(肉、魚)無骨的
on the bone
(肉、魚)帶骨的
point the bone at
(澳大利亞)(土著)以兇符骨指向…咒其倒黴(或喪命)
throw the bones
(南非)占卜
to the bone
及骨,到骨頭
見下面 to one's bones
to one's bones (或 to the bone)
深入骨髓,徹底地,到極點
what's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh
(諺)江山易改,本性難移
work one's fingers to the bone
不住手地工作;勤奮工作
The workers worked themselves to the bone for the capitalists.
工人們為資本家賣命.
The bone wedged in his throat and strangled him.
骨頭卡在喉嚨裡使他窒息.
The freezing weather chilled me to the bone.
寒冷的天氣使我感到冰冷刺骨.
Dogs like to gnaw on a bone.
狗愛啃骨頭.
I'll work my fingers to the bone till I pay back all my debts.
我要拼命地工作直到把借款還清.