1. 骨；骨头
    Your bones are the hard parts inside your body which together form your skeleton.

    e.g. Many passengers suffered broken bones...
           许多乘客骨折。
    e.g. Stephen fractured a thigh bone...
           斯蒂芬断了一根股骨。

2. 剔除（肉类或鱼）的骨头
    If you bone a piece of meat or fish, you remove the bones from it before cooking it.

    e.g. Make sure that you do not pierce the skin when boning the chicken thighs...
           剔鸡腿骨时切勿戳破外面的皮。
    e.g. The boned fish is so easy to serve.
           剔了刺的鱼很容易烹制。

3. （工具或装饰品）骨制的
    A bone tool or ornament is made of bone.

    e.g. ...a small, expensive pocketknife with a bone handle.
           昂贵的骨柄小折刀

4. see also: marrow bone;T-bone steak

5. 基本部分；梗概
    The bare bones of something are its most basic parts or details.

bone的反义词

    e.g. There are not even the bare bones of a garden here — I've got nothing.
           这儿连个花园的影子都没有——我什么也没看到。

6. 太过直白；过于直率；露骨
    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.

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7. 从内心；凭直觉
    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.

    e.g. I've got a feeling in my bones that things are not quite right.
           直觉告诉我情况不太对头。

8. 开诚布公；直言不讳
    If you make no bones about something, you talk openly about it, rather than trying to keep it a secret.

    e.g. Some of them make no bones about their political views.
           他们中的一些人坦率地表达了自己的政治观点。

9. 毫不犹豫；毫不迟疑；二话不说
    If you make no bones about doing something that is unpleasant or difficult or that might upset someone else, you do it without hesitating.

    e.g. Stafford-Clark made no bones about reapplying for the job when Daldry was standing for it.
           当戴德利对他表示支持时，斯塔福德-克拉克毫不迟疑地再次申请了这份工作。

10. 瘦得皮包骨头；瘦骨嶙峋
    You can say someone is just skin and bone when you do not approve of the fact that they are very thin.

    e.g. He was nothing but skin and bones.
           他瘦得只剩皮包骨头了。

11. （削减）达到最低限度，到最小化
      If something such as costs are cut to the bone, they are reduced to the minimum possible.

      e.g. It has survived by cutting its costs to the bone...
             它通过最大限度地降低运营成本生存了下来。
      e.g. Profit margins have been slashed to the bone in an attempt to keep turnover moving.
             为了维持资金周转，利润率已被降为最低。

12. （影响）深刻地，彻骨地
      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.

bone的近义词

      e.g. What I saw chilled me to the bone.
             我看到的景象令我不寒而栗。

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