英语释义

1. very much
We were frozen to the bone. The threatening look in his eyes chilled me to the bone.

2. as much as possible
The company has cut costs to the bone in an effort to save money.

片语

chilled to the bone冻僵了

Bad to the Bone坏到骨子里

Down to the BoneDown to the Bone is an acid jazz group led by British DJ Stuart Wade, who formed the band with Chris Morgans (who has now left) in 1996. The group is very popular in the UK, where they are "hailed as the kings of UK jazz groove.

Fingers to the bone工作十分卖力

Thinned To The Bone形销骨立

to point the bone诅咒…倒霉

cut to the bone削减

Piercing To The Bone刺骨

英汉例句

• it will be at pains to let the masses know how the heir-apparent refused special treatment as a youth, instead working himself to the bone on some national task or other.

  还将尽力让大众知道储君在年轻时是怎样拒绝特殊对待的，不仅如此，储君还非常努力地执行国家任务什么的。

• the pressure points come when the issues are so close to the bone that a variety of people don「t feel that they had the luxury to do that, that their interests, their commitments are threatened.

  有时也有一些压力,这时话题通常比较敏感，许多人,觉得言论自由成为了一种奢侈品，他们的兴趣和信仰都受到了威胁。

• drugs are available that increase white blood-cell production to counter any damage that may have occurred to the bone marrow, and to reduce the risk of further infections due to immune-system damage.

  为了使白血球增多以防护辐射对骨髓的损害，在条件允许的情况下可以注射一些药物，这样能够防止其对免疫系统的进一步伤害。

• and another had to be evacuated after cutting his foot to the bone while crossing a waterfall.

  另一位车手在穿过一处瀑布时脚受了伤，不得不中途退出骑行。

• once, long ago, this farmer worked his fingers to the bone so his son could learn to be a clerk at the castle.

  曾经，很久以前，有个农夫起早摸黑的干活，为了让他的儿子能过在一个城堡学习文书类的工作。

• martins-green explained that an important protein produced in the bone marrow causes the cancer cells to move to the bone where they can then form new tumors.

  曼汀格林结识骨髓中产生的一种重要的蛋白是导致癌细胞向其转移并产生肿瘤的重要化学物质。

• it wasn」t until then that i noticed that he was soaked to the bone in dripping water and we had not a single drop of rain in a month or more.

  这时我才发现他已经是浑身湿透了，可是，我们可能有一个多月没见过一滴雨了。

• in traditional maori practice, the heads of one's forefathers, often tattooed to the bone of the skull, were kept as totems honoring their spirits.

  按毛利人的传统做法，他们会把祖先们的颅骨刺青，并作为他们的精神图腾保管。

• it means cutting costs to the bone and eliminating all but the most essential features of a product or service.

  那意味着将成本压到最低限度，在保留产品或服务的基本功能的条件下去掉其他不必要的功能。

• perhaps the way that we and our fellow critters appear at the most basic, elemental level -- maybe how we look when stripped to the bone -- says more about us than we like to admit.

  不管你承不承认，也许我们和其他生灵最基本最原始的构造方式，或者我们脱光了只剩骨头的样子——比我们原本的样子更加令人印象深刻。

• at 74 he remains a true radical, whose vision of paring government to the bone excites a youthful following.

  74岁的他，仍然是一个纯粹的激进派，他精简政府至最低限度的观点激起一批年轻的党羽。

• have you ever spent the day swimming, then at the end felt a wonderful kind of down to the bone tired?

  你曾经花了一整天游泳，最后感到一种奇妙的全身放松的感觉吗？

• doctors are worked to the bone for relatively low pay (around $125, 000 a year at mid-career).

  医生们拼命工作，最终得到只是相对较少的工资（一个处在职业中期的医生每年大概收入是125000美元）。

• just to pass the time of day with him ----( shivers . ) like a raw wind that gets to the bone .

  想想每天跟他一起过日子，——（一阵战栗）就像一阵阴冷的风侵袭入骨。