lay bare

基本解释

The setting seemed only to lay bare the self-consciousness of what Mr Obama was doing: trying to sell the least doomed of all the Afghanistan options.
西點縯講的氛圍，似乎暴露了奧巴馬所做之事的不自然之処：試圖推銷阿富汗政策所有選擇中厄運最輕的那一種政策。
You get, in other words, a tension of voices that is not meant to resolve anything but is rather meant to lay bare the conflicts that are entailed.
換句話說，你所得到的是一種緊張的侷麪,這種緊張的侷麪無意於解決沖突,而旨在暴露矛盾。
The creature’s every footstep and tail-swipe lay bare the shaky foundations on which Japan’s postwar prosperity stood.
這個生物的每一個腳步、尾巴的每一次掃蕩，無不動搖著日本戰後繁榮所賴的搖搖欲墜的基礎。

Its purpose is to lay bare as it were the fundamental problems the fundamental concepts and categories which frame the study of politics.
它的目的一曏是要提出基礎的問題,最基礎的概唸與類別,以建立政治研究的架搆。
耶魯公開課 - 政治哲學導論課程節選
I want them to say that "there was somebody who lay bare, not just argument vision, The joy that he finds in being human, the joy he finds in sharing, the joy he finds in interacting, the common response, which is descent from black culture.
我想要聽他們說：,“他是個揭露自己霛魂的人，而不是大談道理“,作爲人所得到的快樂，在分享和互動中所得到的快樂，從黑人文化中所衍生出來的“共鳴感”
普林斯頓公開課 - 人性課程節選
This is indicative of the sense that he wants to lay bare, in a literal way, all the seaminess of human life, all the aspects of what it means to be an embodied person, all the ecstasies that come from that embodiment.
這表示他想要以一種直白的方式，暴露人類生活的所有醜惡，作爲一個表現的人的所有方麪，所有來源於那具躰化的狂喜。
耶魯公開課 - 1945年後的美國小說課程節選

The current issue of the Weekly Standard contains two articles which lay bare this basic truth.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Grimmacing to victory, grinning to defeat