| 词汇 | stark |
| 释义 | stark adjective uk /stɑːk/ us /stɑːrk/ empty, simple, or obvious, especially without decoration or anything that is not necessary: 裸露的；简单的；明显的；（尤指）毫无修饰的，粗陋的；严重的；极端的 It was a stark room with a bed and chair as the only furniture.这个房间很简陋，仅有的家具就是一张床和一把椅子。 The stark reality is that we are operating at a huge loss.严酷的事实是我们的经营亏损非常严重。 In the suburbs the spacious houses stand in stark (= extreme)contrast to the slums of the city's poor.郊区宽敞的大房子和城里的贫民窟形成了鲜明的对比。 Synonyms austere plain(WITH NOTHING ADDED) severe(PLAIN)often disapproving Apparent and obvious (from) under your noseidiom apparent be (as) plain as the nose on your faceidiom be (right) under your noseidiom be etched somewhereidiom be writ largeidiom flagrantly foregone conclusion glaring glaringly I need hardly do somethingidiom obtrude overtly palpable palpably parallax patently squeaky stand/stick out a mileidiom written all over someone's faceidiom You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Plain and ordinary Related wordstarkness stark adverb uk /stɑːk/ us /stɑːrk/ completely or extremely: 完全地;极端地 The children were splashing in the river, stark naked.孩子们一丝不挂地在河里嬉水。 If I didn't exercise, I think I'd go raving mad (UK also stark staring mad) from sitting at a desk all day.如果不做运动的话，我想整天坐在办公桌面前会让我完全发疯的。 Linguistics: very & extreme abjectly absolutely abundantly abundantly clear beyond biblical downright extraordinarily extremely infinitely particularly richly stupefyingly super super-duper super-spectacular superabundantly totally violently whatever stark | American Dictionarystark adjective[ -er/-est only ] us/stɑrk/ empty or without decoration: stark white walls Stark also means completely clear: The dim halls made a stark contrast with the bright, sun-drenched apartment. stark naked Someone who is stark naked is not wearing any clothes. Examples of starkstark Recent scholars disagree markedly over this, however, though a brief summary risks making these differences seem starker than they really are. In starkest contrast is the 5th extract which follows it. The starkest illustration of this point is the current competition within a pool of western countries to attract physicians and nurses. Perhaps we can make a start by way of the work's starkest contrast, between the last two scenes. Perhaps the starkest evidence for the force of inspection comes in the increasing standardization of office operations. The starkest examples in this study came from observation of specialist teams working with the homeless and refugees. Nevertheless, even the starkest normativist cannot ignore altogether the phenomena his norms are supposed to regulate and explain. Perhaps the contrast cannot be presented starker than through the following example. The differences between the educational groups are even starker. Differences are very stark as well as in relation to accountability. In his attempt to discredit ancient and modern democracy and to elevate an aristocratic culture he presents us with a stark either/or logic. Besides, the stark reality is that if the meal is not prepared, the patient will not be sustained and may even die. There were occasionally photographs of burnt remains, but even these sat in stark contrast to the images of terror-in-progress that dominated the broadly western coverage. The result is that in perhaps, too stark contrast to the approaches above, they entirely ignore the interests and power of commercial institutions. In stark contrast, only 4 (11%) of the control children showed this bias. See all examples of stark These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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