To divest of covering; make bare .

剥光除去遮盖物;使赤裸

So the child flew away like a bird, and, making bare her small white feet, went pattering along the moist margin of the sea.

那孩子便象鸟儿般地飞了开去,她那双赤裸着的白白的小脚丫,一路拍着水在潮湿的海边跑着。

On Thanksgiving eve, President Trump slipped unnoticed out of his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on his way to a bare-bones military plane with just a handful of top aides. Sixteen hours later, he touched down for the first time in Afghanistan.

在感恩节前夕，特朗普总统人不知鬼不觉地溜出他在佛罗里达州的MAR-A-Lago庄园，来到一加简陋的军用飞机上，只带了少数几个高级助手。 16小时后，他第一次降落在阿富汗。

In its first extended sense, beyond the bare sense of literacy, it was a definition of ‘politer or humane learning, and thus specified a particular social distinction.

在它第一引申意义中，除了本义教养外，它还定义为礼貌和仁道的学识，进而指代特定的社会声望。

Literature as a new category was then a specialization of the area formerly categorized as rhetoric and grammar: a specialization to reading and, in the material context of the development of printing, to the printed word and especially the book. It was eventually to become a more general category than poetry or the earlier poesy, which had been general terms for imaginative composition, but which in relation to the development of literature became predominantly specialized, from the seventeenth...

作为一个新种类，文学曾归于修辞和语法的专门领域：是针对印刷术发展背景下的阅读，针对印刷字体特别是印刷书籍的专门领域。它最终成为比诗歌或早期诗体更普遍的种类，后两者曾是虚构作品的基本成分，但自十七世纪始，在与文学共同发展过程中，它们高度专业化，成为韵律作品特别是书写和印刷的韵律作品。可是文学根本不是主动性作品---即“符号”---这个诗歌所形容的词。因阅读多于写作，它属于不同类型。其典型作用正如培根所写---“精通文学，博学多才，品格高尚，仁慈善良”---晚至后来的约翰逊写到---“他的儿子在其最优美的拉丁诗之一中评价说，他大概不仅仅精通普通的文学。”如此说来，文学是属于应用和条件之类，而非创作。迄今为止它被看作一种行为和实践的专门领域，在其社会环境中，不可避免的打上社会阶级的烙印。其首要意思的扩展，已不仅仅表示文字能力，而是“优雅或仁慈，博学”，进而代表一种优越的社会地位。在用“古典”语言...