English Dictionary

lay bare

動詞

比喩的用法

To make bare; strip. / (figuratively) To expose to view, reveal, uncover.

日本語の意味

（物を）裸にする、むき出しにする / （比喩的に）露呈させる、明らかにする

The audit will lay bare the company's hidden expenses.

監査はその会社の隠れた経費を明らかにするだろう。

意味（1）

To make bare; strip.

And laid those proud roofs bare to Summer's rain

意味（2）

(figuratively) To expose to view, reveal, uncover.

The central and centralized, imperial governments, guided by the big interests of the country, induced in their unfortunate subjects this last pestilential epidemic of military mania by means of a persistent course of direct and indirect suggestion in which the conditions of normal and abnormal suggestibility were specially emphasized, laying bare the social subconscious, stimulating in it the fear of invasion and attack by neighboring nations, stirring up the impulse of self-preservation, rousing the entranced, hypnotized mind of the populace to a frenzy of self-defense, while the junkers, the officers, the soldiers, the professors, the journalists of the middle-classes were entranced with beatific visions of world-dominion.

lays bare （ present singular third-person ）

laying bare （ participle present ）

laid bare （ participle past ）

laid bare （ past ）