Please call in at the chemist's
and have this prescription made up for me; to write out a prescription.
7. bare adj 1. обнаженный, голый, непокрытый (usu. about some part of our body), е.g.
His head was bare.
Syn. naked (= having no clothes on), е.g. Victorine was shocked when she learned that she
would have to sit for the painter quite naked.
barefoot adj predic, adv = with bare feet, without shoes and stockings, е.g. Children like to
go (run, walk) barefoot.
barefooted adj, attr. Barefooted people were standing on the bank.
bare-legged (-armed) adj = with bare legs (arms), е.g. When we speak of bare-legged
children we mean children wearing shoes, but no stockings; bare-footed children wear neither shoes
nor stockings.
bare-beaded, adj = without a hat, е.g. It's already too cold to go bare-headed.
2. пустой, голый, лишенный чего-л., as a bare room (with little or no furniture), bare walls
(without pictures or wallpaper), bare trees (without leaves), bare facts (only facts; nothing but facts).
Cf.: a bare room (no furniture), an empty room (no people), a vacant room (a room in which
either no one is living at present or no one is working; a room which can be occupied), е.g. After the
piano was taken out, the room seemed quite bare. I thought I heard voices in the next room, but it
was empty. "Won't you look for a vacant room in which we could have a consultation?" — "I'm told
that all the rooms are occupied."
8. refuseυt/i отказывать(ся), е.g. She refused my offer. She can't refuse her children
anything. He refused to do what I asked him.
N о t e: In the meaning of sacrificing smth., parting with smth., the English verb to give up is
used, е.g. He gave up the idea of going there. Roger promised to give up smoking, but he didn't keep
his promise.
refusaln, е.g. He answered her invitation, with a cold refusal,
9. likeadj похожий, подобный, е.g. They are as like as two peas. What is he like? (= What
sort of person is he?) What does he look like? ( = What kind of appearance has he got?) How does
she look today? (= What is her appearrance today?) It looks like gold. (= It has the appearance of
gold.) It looks like rain. It was just like him to take the biggest piece of cake. There is nothing like
home.
likeprep or adv подобно, как, е.g. I can't do it like you. They are behaving like little
children, I've never heard him sing like that.
Note: to act like means to do smth. in the same way or in the manner of other people, е.g. She
can play like a real pianist.;